Swiss fine 14 Carat gold full hunter cased pocket watch Circa 1890

Pocket watch with three gold lids
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A fine gold full hunter cased pocket watch, made by Ducommun-Sandoz & Cie. in la Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, circa 1890. This numbered and full hunter cased watch was crafted from 14 Carat gold is engine turned on the back and front lid with a blank cartouche in the center of the latter and the cuvette is marked with a number of technicalities of the watch. The white enamel dial has Roman hour numerals, a subsidiary seconds dial at six o’clock and beautiful gold hands and the movement has a fine lever escapement.
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Diameter: 50 mm
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Weight: 88 g
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Signed: No name
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Ducommun-Sandoz & Cie.
The company Ami Sandoz & Sons, Ami Sandoz & Fils or Ami Sandoz & Son, was active in Geneva and La Chaux-de-Fonds from around 1820 to circa 1900. The company won a silver medal at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1878. They used an elevator mechanism invented by Gustave Sandoz. The company also had connections with the watch shop exploited by the salesman Charles Gottlob Jonathan Seytz until he died on January 17, 1848, in Hyeres, France. In 1884 Ami Sandoz & Fils founded a branch at Markgrafenstrasse 76 in Berlin, but in the “General Apartment Gazette with Address and Business Manual for Berlin, its Surroundings and Charlottenburg” from 1861, an Ami Sandoz & Sons watch shop in Jerusalemmer Strasse 21f was recorded. The company in La Chaux-de-Fonds was continued as Ducommun-Sandoz & Cie.