Fine English gold, silver and niëllo pocket watch Circa 1900

Silver chronometer with pivoted detent escapement
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A fine, large English, nielloed silver and gold, keyless pocket chronometer with pivoted detent escapement and 24-hour dial, circa 1900. The bezel and band decorated with leaves and berries, the back cover with a foliate monogram within an ivy-leaf border, gold hinges, thumb-piece, collar and bow. Hinged silver cuvette.
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Off-white enamel dial with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, red 24-hour numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands.
A rhodium-plated, Geneva striping and oeil de perdrix decoration, 13 jewels, four in screwed gold chatons, wolf’s tooth winding, gold wheel train, Earnshaw type pivoted detent escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel helical balance spring, index regulator. Dial and cuvette signed by the retailer.
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Diameter: 56 mm
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Signed: M. French & Son, (Royal Exchange)  London