Exquisite Swiss gold skeletonized dress watch Circa 1980

Gold and diamond dress watch
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A beautiful Swiss 18 carat yellow gold and diamond skeletonized keyless dress watch, circa 1980. An open faced, keyless winding dress watch set with diamonds.
A skeletonized dial with blued steel hands. The movement has a lever escapement, fully skeletonized and engraved in fine cut with scrolls and foliage.
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Diameter: 41 mm
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Weight: 25 g
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Signed: No Name
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Skeleton watches have been around for a long time, allowing the amateur to discover the mysteries of the art of watchmaking. They experienced a revival of interest during the Art Deco period, then in the 1980s with the resurgence of mechanical horology after the quartz crisis of the 1970s.
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Personalities such as Vincent Calabrese (b.1944) – to whom we owe in 1977 the rectilinear movement, known as the Golden Bridge In-Line, where all the wheels and pinions are arranged in a straight line, an invention sold to Corum, which then improved it, patented it and officially launched it in 1980 – or the Claude Meylan House in the Abbaye, Vallée de Joux, founded in 1983, or Kurt Schaffo in Le Locle, have made a speciality of producing skeleton pieces, both pocket and wristwatch, sometimes with self-winding or with horological complications.