Swiss pocket watch with grande and petite sonnerie Circa 1890

Gold pocket watch with grande and petite sonnerie and minute repeater
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Very fine and very rare hunting cased, keyless, 18 carat yellow gold pocket watch with grande and petite sonnerie and minute repeater. Made by James Picard, Geneva, Circa 1890.
Four-body, bassine and polished case with hinged gold cuvette over a transparent dust cover. White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds and blue steel Breguet hands.
Rhodium-plated movement with 30 jewels, double train with differential winding, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, striking the hours and quarters on three gongs with three hammers, Silence/Sonnerie selection lever on the band and repeating activated by a slide in the band.
Dial signed.
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Diameter: 55 mm
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Signed: James Picard, Geneva