Russian 14K red gold anchor chronometer hunter watch Circa 1900

Gold hunting cased anchor chronometer by Pavel Buhré
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A Russian red gold hunter with engraved tsar’s eagle, a very fine anchor chronometer, circa 1900.
Very fine anchor chronometer movement with Geneva stripes. Polished 14K red gold case with engraved tsar’s eagle, Russian gold hallmark, and dust cover signed and numbered in Cyrillic In the service of his highness. Signed enamel dial with Breguet-style radial hours, outer minutes track, subsidiary dial for the seconds, and blued Breguet steel hands of special quality.
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Diameter: 51 mm
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Weight: 86 g
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Signed: Pavel Buhré (in Cyrillic)
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Pavel (Paul) Buhré, Russian master watchmaker
Paul Léopold Buhré ‘s son, Paul Buhré, carried on his father’s ” Paul Buhré ” clock and watch shop, founded in 1815 in Saint Petersburg. Paul Buhré was a purveyor to the court of the Russian tsar. In addition to the shops in Saint Petersburg, he had others in Moscow. The Buhré family was one of the most important watch dealers in Russia. Most of them imported watches from Switzerland. Around 1880, Paul Buhré founded a watch factory in Le Locle. The management of this company was taken over by the Swiss watchmaker Paul Othenin-Girard. After the company founder had retired from this business, Othenin-Girard continued the company with his brother-in-law – the Saint Petersburg watchmaker Georges Pfund. In 1917 – with the October Revolution – the Russian market for Buhré collapsed; the company specialized in deck watches, marine chronometers, chronographs and pendulettes. In 1963 Buhré was taken over by the DIXI group of companies.