Extra-flat Pocket Or Pocket Watch In Solid Silver With Chiseled And Guilloché Art-deco Decoration.

- Extra-flat pocket or pocket watch in solid silver, chiseled and guilloché with a rectangular vertical straight line decoration, the rim of the bowl decorated with oak leaves and acorns, the edge of the pocket watch is fluted, the bezel of the pocket watch is decorated with oak leaves and acorns, the bail in the shape of an art deco, chiseled and guilloché. - French swan title hallmark 800/1000 with the mark of the precious metals inspection office in Pontarlier in the Doubs department (25) letter P for the import of watch cases from abroad in use in France from 1893 to 1970 present on the edge of the watch case on the back of the pendant head, dust cover and on the bowl partially erased. - The swan hallmark may have also been affixed during a visit to the auction room to be able to check the purity of the solid silver of the pocket watch. - Goldsmith's hallmark of the Swiss manufacturer of watch cases with the letters H and F for Huguenin Frères located in the city of Le Locle in French Switzerland present on the bowl, head of the pendant, dust cover. - The Huguenin Frères factory founded in 1868 by two brothers Fritz (engraver) and Albert (guillocheur) Huguenin and known worldwide for its quality of manufacture of watch cases and made famous in particular for the process they developed for nielloed silver watch cases. - The factory closed permanently in 2022 after filing for bankruptcy. - Number 21 engraved in hollow on the dust cover and bowl, number 85 engraved in hollow on the edge of the watch case, bowl and dust cover - Silver metal dial, Arabic numerals painted in black for the hours, railway graduation for the minutes. - Small seconds dial at six o'clock, Arabic numerals for the seconds, black painted railway graduation for the seconds, blued steel second hand. - Art Deco diamond-shaped hands in blued steel for the hours and minutes, slightly domed and beveled mineral glass. - Movement in gilded brass set with rubies, crown wheel, screws, advance and delay racket in polished steel. - Solid silver winding crown, pendant winder and time setting by pulling the top of the winding crown while turning clockwise. - In perfect working order, serviced by a watchmaker. - Art Deco period circa 1920-1935. - Gross weight: 63.34 gr.