Swiss gold plated pocket watch with one minute tourbillon Circa 1900

Open faced lever with visible tourbillon by Fureur & Cie.
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A Swiss gold plated open faced centre seconds keyless lever pocket watch, circa 1900. Known as the Fureur Tourbillon carousel. This watch features a gilt brass full plate movement centred with a revolving one minute tourbillon carriage, beneath an engraved gilt bridge, a straight line lever escapement, a monometallic balance, a self compensating flat balance spring, and an index regulator. The white enamel regulator dial displays an eccentric time indication in the upper half with radial Roman numerals, minute divisions, and blued steel Breguet style hands, along with an outer minute track and Arabic five minute numerals. The plain case includes a tourbillon complication visible in the central part of the back of the watch.
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Diameter 53 mm.
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Signed: Fureur Tourbillon Swiss made
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Fureur & Cie
The company Fureur & Cie was listed in Geneva and was a branch of the Saint Imier-based watch factory L. & E. Fallet Fils. The company was registered on 19 December 1903 by Edouard Fallet. It also supplied carousel style tourbillon watches to Invicta and Courvoisier Frères in La Chaux-de-Fonds. Thus, “Fureur” was actually a trademark of the parent company in Saint Imier.