Description

A late 19^th Century minute repeating moonphase calendar lever in a heavy gold full hunter case.  Keyless nickelled bar movement with going barrel. Grained steel flyback chronograph work above the bridges.  Plain cock with polished steel regulator, compensation balance with blue steel overcoil hairspring.  Club foot lever escapement, escape and lever pivots with endstones.  Slide minute repeating on two polished steel gongs, repeating train and hammers fully jewelled.  White enamel dial with flyback centre seconds chronograph. Subsidiaries for day, date and second, the month displayed in a small rectangular aperture below twelve o’clock.  Gold and blue enamel moonphase disc visible through the aperture in the seconds subsidiary.  Roman numerals, gold hands, decorative pierced gold hands for the day and date.  Very substantial large plain 18 carat full hunter case with five joint hinges, maker’s mark “JL” in an oval.  Gold button in the band at twelve for the flyback centre seconds chronograph which is disabled when the cover is closed.  Gold slide at six o’clock for the minute repeating.  Plain gold cuvette, glazed cover to the movement.  Four steel levers in the front bezel to allow the calendar functions to be set.