Swiss half quarter repeating gold pocket watch Circa 1875

Hunting cased pocket watch by Patek Philippe
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A Swiss early Patek Philippe gold hunting cased pocket watch, with rare half quarter repeater, circa 1875.
18 carat gold case and signed “E.F. Wolf, Hanover”; Patek Philippe precision lever movement with wolf’s toothing and repeating hours, quarters and half quarters; rare signed enamel dial with black Arabic hours, red minute register, sunk subsidiary dial with red seconds and blued Breguet steel hands. Matching numbers on case and movement.
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Diameter: 50 mm
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Weight: 112 g
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Signed: Patek Philippe & Cie Genève
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The identical movement and case number suggest that Patek Philippe supplied the movement and dial of this watch to the German Chronometer maker Louis Eschholz/E.F. Wolf in Hanover and the watch was completed there, in the same way as Patek Philippe supplied Tiffany in New York. Louis Eschholz was born in Hanover in 1841 and is the successor of E.F. Wolf in Hanover. He was a member of the board of the Hanoverian watch making guild and submitted in 1903 the chronometer N ° 863 for examination. Louis Eschholz died on September 8, 1905 in Hanover.