Swiss silver exceptionally large anker chronometer Circa 1895

Pocket watch with silver case with gold hinges  
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An exceptionally large anker chronometer, made by Couleru-Meuri successor to Henri Brandt in la-Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, circa 1895. The open faced case was crafted from silver, has gold hinges and an engine turned back lid with a monogram in a cartouche in the center. The white enamel dial is signed with the vendor’s name, has Roman hour numerals from 1 to 12 o’clock and Arabic hour numerals from 13 to 24 o’clock, a subsidiary seconds dial at 6 o’clock and gold hands. The movement has a very unusual anker chronometer caliber and an extremely large chronometer balance.
Case and movement have identical maker’s mark and the dial and cuvette are signed with the vendor‘s and the maker’s names, respectively.
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Diameter: 65 mm
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Weight: 183 g
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Signed: Karl Beers, Inh. Erich Beers, Hannover 
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Couleru-Meuri
Charles Couleru-Meuri was the successor to the Henri Brandt company and manufactured chronometers in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
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He was a watchmaker located in La Chaux-de-Fonds from 1880 through the 1920’s and his namesake firm was one of the most important makers of complicated watches in the city.

Born Charles-Frédéric Couleru in 1851, he married Maria-Julia Möri and took the alliance name of Couleru-Meuri. He was active from at least 1880 through bankruptcy in 1899, then continued to be involved in his namesake company under Parisians Hector Lévy and Georges Meyer who used the intellectual property to build the Utinam factory in Besançon. Couleru-Meuri himself continued with a new firm and invented 8 day watches in association with L. Sandoz-Vuille of Le Locle. His son Eugène Couleru founded Montres Octo to produce similar watches but faced bankruptcy himself in the economic downturn of the 1920’s. Couleru-Meuri’s legacy is seen in the Besançon watch industry (including a modern Utinam), 8 day watches and clocks from Octo, Rode, Octava and the Montbrillant Watch Manufactory building he shared with Breitling in the 1890’s.