Swiss 18 carat gold minute repeating pocket watch Circa 1900

Gold hunting cased lever
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A very fine Swiss 18 carat yellow gold minute repeating key winding pocket watch made by LeCoultre & Co in Switzerland, circa 1900. A plain, hunting cased watch, with in the center an applied decoration. White enamel dial with Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds at 6, and gold hands. A gilded brass movement, going barrel, straightline lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance with gold poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, polished steel indexregulator; repeater work on the main plate, under the dial, with silent centrifugal force governor to regulate the speed of the repetition mechanism. Signature on the movement.
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Diameter: 53 mm
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Signed: LeCoultre & Co.  Swiss
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Movement based on the Swiss invention patent No. 15833, delivered on January 7, 1898, to Ditisheim & Cie, La Chaux-de-Fonds, for a “Freinrégulateur pour mécanisme d’horlogerie”.