Swiss gold lever with split-seconds chronograph Circa 1900

Gold hunting cased keyless pocket watch
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A fine, 14K gold Swiss, hunting cased, keyless, pocket watch, circa 1900. With split seconds chronograph and 30 minute register. Engine turned covers, reeded band. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel dial, Arabic numerals, outer minute and concentric fifths of a second division, red painted Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30 minute register. Gold Louis XV hands.

A rhodium plated movement, 20 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring, swan neck micrometric regulator, split-seconds mechanism under the dial. Dial and movement signed.
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Diameter: 54 mm
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Signed: Ch. Léon Guinand  Le Locle
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This watch is based on Guinand’s own design, patented on March 17, 1891.