Swiss hunting cased minute repeating pendant watch Circa 1890

Yellow gold repeating full hunter by Maurice Ditisheim
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A fine Swiss, keyless-winding, 18-carat yellow gold, minute repeating, hunting cased lever pendant watch, circa 1890-1900.
This small watch has one horological complication: – Minute-repeater on two steel gongs (activated by the slide at 6 o’clock). The 18-carat yellow gold hunting case has an engraved cover in taille-douce (fine cut) with the trademark R M. The enamel dial has Arabic numerals, outer minutes track, subsidiary dial for the seconds at 6, and gold Louis XV hands. And it has a gilded brass movement with a going barrel, straight-line lever escapement, compensated balance, and blued steel hairspring with a terminal curve.
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Diameter: 36.5 mm
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Signed: Maurice Ditisheim
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Maurice Ditisheim, Swiss watchmaker and manufacturer
Maurice Ditisheim was born on December 29, 1831, in Fleurier. He was the son of Jacques Ditisheim (Didisheim), who was born on May 18th, 1797 in Hégenheim, Haut Rhin, Alsace, (Alsace) and died in Basel on August 29th, 1880 . His mother was Elise Elle Charlotte Bloch (1801-1862). From this marriage, five children were born. Maurice’s brother was Gaspard Ditisheim, who founded the company Ditisheim Frères. Besides Maurice and Gaspard, there was Aron, David and Rosalie Ditisheim.
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Maurice married Berthe Daniels; from this marriage, five children were born, Marthe Ditisheim, Hermann Ditisheim, Elise Ditisheim, Jenny Ditisheim and Albert Ernest Ditisheim. Marthe Ditisheim married Hippolyte Didisheim, Elise Ditisheim married Henri-Albert Didisheim, and Jenny Ditisheim married Edgar Didisheim. These three brothers owned the clock factory Albert Didisheim et Frères, later Marvin.
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In 1858, Maurice Ditisheim founded a watch workshop in La Chaux-de-Fonds, which quickly grew into the Maurice Ditisheim manufactory and produced Vulcain watches for the first time in 1894. Because the company of Maurice Ditisheim was merged with Ditisheim Frères, founded by Gaspard, which had the brand name Vulcain since 1891. In 1896 the brand name Volta was registered. In 1900, the factory had the name Vulcain protected for its watches. After Maurice Ditisheim died, Albert Ernest Ditisheim took over the company. In 1910the company was listed as Ditisheim & Co. Successeurs de Maurice Ditisheim, Fabrique Vulcain. In 1911 the firm was re-listed as Ditisheim & Co., Fabrique Vulcain & Volta. At that time, there was a pocket watch with an alarm model with a cricket. Ditisheim also had the name “Grillon” and “Cricket” secured; this pocket watch from the production of Ditisheim & Co. was possible. The Cricket alarm pocket watch was certainly an excellent example of the Cricket Alarm wristwatch.
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Ditisheim is considered one of the first patrons of the MIH, the international clock and watch museum in La Chaux-de-Fonds.
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Maurice Ditisheim died in 1899.