Swiss gold watch with chronometer escapement Circa 1874

Gold precision hunting cased pocket watch
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A heavy, very fine precision Swiss hunting cased pocket watch with pivoted detent chronometer escapement, circa 1874.
18 Carat pink gold, tiered, à goutte, polished case with reeded band, signed gold dome, and glazed movement; enamel dial with radial Roman hours, Arabic minutes, auxiliary seconds, and blued spade hands; and signed, German silver, ground bridge movement with nine-carat pink gold train, screwed gold chatons, pivoted detent escapement, anti galop system, comp. balance with two oval gold weights and two adjusting screws, free-sprung blued helical balance spring with both sides passing terminal curves, slender one-armed mirror-polished pink gold balance cock, and arrow-shaped mirror-polished pink gold cock for the gold second wheel and the pivot.
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Diameter: 58 mm
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Weight: 168 g. 
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Signed: Girard Perregaux, Chaux de Fonds
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The manufacturer Girard-Perregaux is one of the few truly authentic Swiss manufacturers. The company draws on a big name from the past. It is also not a bought-out figurehead of an anonymous holding company, but since the beginning of its existence, it has been working with high quality striving for the constant further development of the company good mechanical watch.