Pocket Or Pocket Watch In Chiseled And Guilloché Solid Silver With Orchid Decor.

- Solid silver pocket or pocket watch with chiseled and guilloché bowl decorated with wild orchid and its foliage. - Smooth edge of the pocket watch, chiseled and guilloché bezel with star motifs surrounded by a circle, art nouveau shaped bail. - 800/1000 Swiss grouse title hallmark in use in Switzerland from 1882 to 1934 present on the dust cover, edge of the pocket watch case, on the head of the pendant, on the bail partially erased. - Swiss title hallmark in a rectangle 0.800 engraved in hollow present on the dust cover. - French swan title hallmark 800/1000 for the importation of watch cases from abroad in use in France from 1893 to 1970 present on the edge of the pocket watch case, on the front of the pendant head, bowl, dust cover. - Goldsmith's hallmark of the Swiss manufacturer of pocket watch cases with the letters.HFinterlaced for Huguenin frères located in the city of Le Locle in French Switzerland.present on the bowl and the dust cover, signed HUG.Frs.Dep.in the decoration of the bowl at the bottom left at seven o'clock. - 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 pocket watch cases and made famous in particular for the process they developed for pocket watch cases in nielloed silver. - The manufacture closes permanently in 2022 after filing for bankruptcy. - Number 24663 on the bowl and the dust cover engraved in hollow and number 663 engraved in hollow on the edge of the pocket watch case. - Rare mother-of-pearl dial, black painted Arabic numerals for the hours, black painted index 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 trotteuse hands. - Blued steel Bréguet hands for the hours and minutes, beveled mineral glass. - Movement in gilded brass set with rubies, anchor escapement, movement protected by a Swiss patent, patent + 41493 with the registered mention number 27579, letter A engraved in hollow on the movement, for a movement intended for a pocket watch case in solid silver, polished steel screws and advance and delay racket with micrometric adjustment wheel. - Winding on the pendant and setting the time by pressing the small push button by pressure on the left on the edge of the pocket watch next to the head of the pendant while turning the winder at the same time in a clockwise direction. - In perfect working order, revised by a watchmaker. - Art Nouveau period around 1890-1913. - Gross weight: 80.90 gr.