Very fine Swiss 18 carat gold cabriolet detent pocket watch Circa 1860

Gold cabriolet watch by Ami Sandoz & Sons
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A rare, heavy, exquisite, Swiss pivoted detent chronometer with cabriolet case, circa 1860.
Excellent quality bar movement, chronometer escapement, and shafts with gold chatons. Perfectly preserved enamel dial with Roman radial hours, outer minutes track, subsidiary dial for the seconds, and filigree Breguet steel hands. 18K gold, elaborately engine turned, very rare à goutte cabriolet pair case, where the inner case rotates inside the outer case. Thus, the watch can be worn as a hunting cased watch or a lépine. The inner case is also fantastically engine turned. Dome marked Chronometre, no. 79124, and signed. Only a few chronometers in this version are known.
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Diameter: 53.5 mm
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Weight: 116 g
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Signed: Ami Sandoz & Fils
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Ami Sandoz & Sons, Swiss watch manufacture
The company Ami Sandoz & Sons / Ami Sandoz & Fils / Ami Sandoz & Son was active in Geneva and La Chaux-de-Fonds from around 1820 to around 1900. The company won a silver medal at the Paris World Exhibition in 1878. A pocket chronometer is in the collection of The British Museum. Ami Sandoz & Fils used a winding mechanism invented by Gustave Sandoz. The company also had connections with the watch shop by merchant Charles Gottlob Jonathan Seytz until his death on January 17, 1848, at Hyeres in France. In 1884 the company founded a branch at Markgrafenstraße 76 in Berlin. But in the “Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business handbook for Berlin, its surroundings and Charlottenburg” from 1861, a watch trade Ami Sandoz & Sons in Jerusalemmer Straße 21. F. was already mentioned. The company in La Chaux-de-Fonds continued as Ducommun-Sandoz & Cie.