S.Smith & Son. A Rare Gold Karrusel Half Hunter Pocket Watch C1898

S.Smith & Son. A Rare and Important Keyless Lever 18ct Yellow Gold Karrusel Half Hunter Pocket Watch C1898

Dial: The wonderful cream coloured Willis enamel dial with Roman numerals and outer minute chapter ring. The dial signed S.Smith & Son 9 Strand London and numbered. The subsidiary seconds dial at six o'clock with Class A 77 Marks written above the sub dial. The original blued steel double spade hands and original bled steel seconds hand.

Case: The very heavy 18ct yellow gold (160grm) half hunter case with engraved Roman blue enamelled numerals to the front cover. The back cover is engraved with the familly crest of the Bland family with the motto in Latin Potior Origine Virtus translated in English to Virtue is more Important in Origine.. The inner cover is engraved with a dedication dated 1900. The cases are all Englished hallmarked, numbered and stamped with the case makers mark. The case also has a feature of an anti theft pendat.

Movement: The superb English three quarter plate movement being a free sprung Karrusel keyless lever with blued overcoil hairspring and fullly jewelled to the center abor. The movement is signed S. Smith & Son 9 Strand London, Makers to the Admiralty. Kew Certificate Class A 77.7 Marks.

This watch is indeed Important and rare because of it's condition and it's history having extracts from the National Physical Laboratory Kew. This is a pocket watch that shows Brtish watch making at it's finest. The Karrusel was invented by Bahne, Bonniksen, under, Patent No 21,241, November 1892, he was the inventor of a revolving carriage ‘karrusel’ in which the escapement and balance is made to turn 360 degrees in just under an hour. This was done in order to cancel out the deleterious effects of gravity in fixed escapement watches. This watch would make a fine additionto one's collection. We sell this watch a one year guarantee.