Swiss 14k gold minute repeating pocket watch Circa 1917

Gold hunting cased pocket watch by Mathey Tissot and LeCoultre & Cie.
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A very fine, gold minute repeating hunting cased Swiss pocket watch, circa 1917.
Bridge movement, frosted, gilt, two hammers / two gongs, screwed gold chatons, lever escapement, gold screw compensation balance, blued balance spring, and fine adjusting device. 14-Carat rose gold, tiered, polished, monogrammed case with engraved: date 17.5.1917, king’s crowns, reeded band, and gold dome. Enamel dial with Arabic hours, auxiliary seconds, and Louis XV hands.
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Diameter: 54 mm
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Weight: 111 g
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Signed: Mathey Tissot, La Dragonne / LeCoultre & Cie.
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Edmond Mathey-Tissot, Swiss watch manufacture
Edmond Mathey-Tissot founded 1886 in Les Ponts-de-Martel (Canton Neuchâtel) a watch manufacturer. In 1914, Mathey-Tissot was represented at the Kew Observatory competition with six chronometers, all of which were rated “particularly good”. In the same year, Mathey-Tissot won the Grand Prix of the Swiss National Exhibition.
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During the First World War, the company supplied the United States Army Corps of Engineers with precision chronographs. Mathey-Tissot was a Swiss watch manufacturer of high-quality watches and Mathey-Tissot mostly worked for large, well-known companies. The Cartier Private Museum has an eight-day travel alarm clock by Mathey-Tissot, originally acquired by the Duchess of Windsor (Cartier Inv. No. 21 CT-C40). The company was Elvis Presley’s main supplier of wristwatches, with ELVIS PRESLEY in the bezel.
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Mathey-Tissot has nothing to do with the Swiss watch manufacturer Tissot. But there is a pocket watch with a perpetual calendar and moon phase from E. Mathey-Tissot & Co. which was signed on the dial with simply Tissot, which was possibly delivered to the company Tissot Sa.