Swiss 18k yellow gold lever watch with eight complications Circa 1870

Gold hunting cased complicated watch 
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A very fine and rare Swiss, large, heavy 18K yellow gold, minute repeating, hunting cased, keyless pocket watch, circa 1870. With a chronograph, perpetual calendar, phases of the moon and lunar calendar. Watch with eight Complications Attributed to Louis Audemars, Swiss. The front cover with an engraved foliate monogram, push button for the start/ stop and return-to-zero of the chronograph at 12. Hinged gold cuvette overglazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement.
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White enamel dial, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost chronograph divisions with fifths of second divisions and Arabic five second/minute numerals to 300 units, four subsidiary dials for days of the week, date, months concentric with leap year indication, seconds and aperture for the phases of the moon, lunar calendar on the edge. Blued steel spade hands. A rhodium-plated movement, Geneva striping decoration, 35 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature and meantime adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on gongs with two polished steel hammers activated by a slide on the band. Case numbered.
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Diameter: 55 mm
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Signed: Attributed to Louis Audemars  Swiss