Swiss heavy gold watch for the American market Circa 1880

Hunting cased gold pocket watch by Charles Edouard Jacot
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A Swiss heavy gold hunting cased pocket watch for the American market, circa 1880. Highly decorative and Jacot’s trademark: the gold hands with blued tips.
This watch consists an 18 carat gold case and a white enamel dial with Roman numerals a sunk subsidiary dial for the seconds and gold hands with blued tips.  It has bridge movement, a patented movement construction and a screw compensation balance. Signed movement.
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Diameter: 56 mm
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Weight: 152 g
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Signed: Charles Edouard Jacot, La Chaux-de-Fonds
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Charles Edouard Jacot des Combes (1817-1897)
He had a reputation as specialist in the field of escapements; the renowned innovator worked in Switzerland after having worked and researched in his uncle’s factory in the United States for 20 years. His most influential and most commonly used patent was the “Jacot duplex escapement” (also known as the Chinese duplex escapement).