English gold pocket watch with two-time zones dial Circa 1900

Gold lever with centre seconds
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A fine and rare English, 18K gold pocket watch, circa 1900. With regulator dial, two-time zones, stop mechanism, and lever escapement with unusual bimetallic compensation balance. The bezels and band were engraved with floral motifs, the back with an engraving of General Charles Cornwallis. Gilt brass cuvette.
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Gold dial with floral motifs, outer dot minute indexes on both subdials, subsidiary seconds and large centre seconds. Blued steel skeleton hands. A frosted gilt movement, with bridges, lever escapement, three-arm brass balance with an internal blued steel rim for temperature compensation, blued steel fl at balance spring with gilt brass balance cock, index regulator, slide on the band to stop the seconds. Case signed.
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Diameter: 53 mm
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Signed: M.J. Tobias & Co.  Liverpool
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The case is slightly worn, the dial is patinated, the movement is oxidized
and the Plating slightly deteriorates.