Small Swiss rose gold open faced chronometer Circa 1890

Gold ladies’ chronometer watch by Fritz Piguet & Bachmann
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A small Swiss 18 carat rose gold open faced pocket chronometer, circa 1890. The movement with a chronometer escapement. White enamel dial with black Roman hours, an outer minute track, outermost blue Arabic five minute numerals, subsidiary seconds at 6 o’clock and spade & whip hands. The plain case with a monogram on the back.
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Diameter: 35 mm
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Weigh: 41 g.
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Signed: Piguet & Bachmann
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Reference No. 7205.
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Fritz Piguet & Bachmann was a Geneva based company established by Fritz Piguet and Louis Bachmann. It specialized in highly complicated watches and employed an excellent adjuster, the renowned A. Favre-Rochat.

Piguet & Bachmann rivalled Haas Neveux in Geneva Timing Competitions for first place in complicated watches. The company won a silver medal at the 1878 Paris Universal Exhibition, a gold medal in Melbourne in 1881 and the first prize in the 1888 Geneva Observatory Timing Contest with 228.8 points. They were the top contenders among those specializing in complicated watches. 

In 1893, a minute repeater with moon phases, a perpetual calendar and chronograph function was delivered to the king of Romania.

Maison M. Bader took over the company in 1913.