Swiss gold quarter repeating watch with calendar Circa 1900

Kenmerk: SA0754
Diameter: 57 mm

Estimate: € 3.000 - 6.000
Price sold: € 3.200

Massive gold quarter repeating watch with day, date, month
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A Swiss massive pink gold hunting cased quarter repeating watch with day, date, month and moon phases, circa 1900, manual winding gilt lever jeweled movement.
Enamel white dial with painted black Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds combined with moon phases, apertures for the month and day, subsidiary dial for the date, outer minute track with 1/5th seconds marks.
Polished 18k pink gold case, hinged cuvette, glazed cover, monogram to the back, slide to activate the minute repeater at 6 o’clock, pusher for the chronograph at 12 o’clock, levers for changing calendar along the bezel, case signed.
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Diameter: 57 mm
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Signed: Ditisheim and Co.
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Paul Ditisheim was born in 1868 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the historic birthplace of the watch-making industry. Paul, son of the famous Ditisheim family, funder and owner of Vulcain, the watch manufacture enjoyed by American presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson, was born into the small social circle of industrialist families that led the Swiss watch industry of the time.[3] He studied at the Horological School of La Chaux-de-Fonds and received his diploma at the age of 13. He was then trained in several of the major watchmakers and worked at his family’s Vulcain manufacture until 1892 when he founded his own brands: Solvil (whose items were often signed Paul Ditisheim) and Titus (whose items were generally marked separately).

Paul Ditisheim was instrumental in developing the new generation of chronometers, improving them grandly through his studies on the impact of atmospheric pressure and magnetic fields. He invented the affix balance. Thanks to his inventions, he was able to make the most precise chronometers ever made. By 1903, his watches were awarded by the Kew and Neuchâtel Observatories contests. In 1912, he won the world’s chronometric record of the Royal Kew Observatory. He also worked closely with Physics Nobel prize winner Charles-Edouard Guillaume and has been considered the father of modern chronometers. According to Professor M. Andrade of the Besançon Astronomical Observatory, Ditisheim’s work “constitutes the most important progress of modern chronometry”

Ditisheim died in 1945, leaving a legacy of technical excellence and design that has renewed the reputation of Swiss Made.

Signed: Ditisheim and Co