Gold Full Hunter Pocketwatch by Bennett

An early 20^th Century English lever by sir John Bennett in a gold full hunter case.  Gilt three quarter plate keyless movement with going barrel under a raised section in the plate.  Plain cock with polished steel regulator, garnet endstone, compensation balance with blue steel overcoil hairspring.  English table roller lever escapement, screwed in jewelling, escape and lever pivots with endstones.  Signed white enamel dial with subsidiary seconds, Roman numerals, blue steel hands. Plain 18 carat full hunter case with gold cuvette, maker's mark "JG" in a rectangle.  The front cover with an engraved signature on the inside is hallmarked London 1954 and bears the makers mark "ATO" for Alfred Thomas Oliver who continued to work as a casemaker into the late 20th Century.