Swiss gold watch with six horological complications Circa 1900

Gold hunting cased pocket watch
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A Swiss 18 carat yellow gold hunting cased keyless pocket watch with six horological complications made by Invicta in La Chaux-de-Fonds, circa 1900. Model, Les Fils de R. Picard, Fabrique Germinal, under the trademark Invicta. A quarter repeater with chronograph, moon phases, and triple date with aperture. The cover and case back are polished. A white enamel dial with suspended Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds at 6 and gilded metal Louis XV hands. A gilded brass movement, going barrel, straight line lever escapement, monometallic compensated balance with gold poising screws and Palladium hairspring with terminal curve, polished steel index regulator, repeater work on the main plate, under the dial, with silent centrifugal force governor to regulate the speed of the repetition mechanism, chronograph work on the top plate. Signature on the cuvette.
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Diameter: 55 mm
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Weight: 116 g
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Signed: Invicta, La Chaux-de-Fonds
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Six horological complications:
-Quarter repeater by two hammers on two steel gongs (activated by the rectangular shaped push piece located on the case band at 6 o’clock)
-1/5 second chronograph (activated by the single olive shaped push piece located on the case band at 2 o’clock)
-Half-instantaneous date of the month (subsidiary dial at 12 o’clock)
-Day of the week (aperture at 9 o’clock; indications given in French)
-Month of the year (aperture at 3 o’clock; indications given in French)
-Phases of the moon (aperture at 6 o’clock)