Swiss 18K yellow gold minute repeater with chronograph Circa 1900

Gold keyless hunting cased lever
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A large Swiss 18K yellow gold hunting cased minute repeating keyless pocket watch with a chronograph, circa 1900. A polished case, push-piece in the band at 12 o’clock for the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with the Prize Medals. White enamel dial, Arabic numerals, outer minutes and fifths of second divisions calibrated from 0-300 units, subsidiary seconds and gold spade hands. A rhodium-plated movement, 35 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometre regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band, centrifugal regulator (Swiss patent No. 15833), chronograph with visible work. Case punched with Maurice Ditisheim’s trademark registered on April 4, 1892.
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Diameter: 56 mm
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Signed: Maurice Ditisheim  Chaux de Fonds
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Maurice Ditisheim (1895) The Vulcain company was founded in 1858 in Chaux-de-Fonds by Maurice Ditisheim and was also called Ditisheim Frères. An advertisement in the ‘Almanach des Horlogers’ St. Imier 1888 mentioned them as a ‘Fabrique d’Horlogerie and they both bought and sold. In 1894, the Maurice Ditisheim company and the company Ditisheim Frères, Fabrique Vulcain, combined forces, the name becoming Maurice Ditisheim, Fabrique Vulcain. Maurice Ditisheim exhibited watches at the 1893 Columbian World Exhibition in Chicago.