ANTIQUE SWISS SILVER LADIES POCKET FOB WATCH c1890

  

This is a superb Antique Swiss Silver Ladies Pocket Watch which comes with a key for winding up the movement. As with all mechanical pocket watches of this age, they can be temperamental, therefore, it would benefit from a service and a clean. When fully wound it does struggle to run and needs some encouragement but once going can run for several hours, even continuing overnight. In fact with the Pocket Watch movement running and winding up every day recently it did.

To run over several days. It has not been checked for time keeping accuracy but there is a regulator on the movement that allows you to set the movement to run faster or slower. The inner case is hallmarked with three Swiss Rampant Bear hallmarks, 0.935. The case measures 4cm in diameter and is in lovely clean condition and with no dings or dents. The glass is also in very good condition with no chips or cracks. The Swiss Act of 1880 recognised only 0.800 and 0.875 silver as legal standards in Switzerland, and these were the only standards that could be hallmarked in Switzerland. This presented Swiss case makers with a problem, because neither of these were legal in Britain.

Legalisation was implemented in December 1887 of the recognition of a fineness 0.935 for official hallmarking of silver watch cases destined to be exported to Britain as well as the three rampant bears. From 1 June 1907 British assay offices started stamping imported silver watch cases with the explicit fineness mark of 925, instead of the lion passant used on British made items. Therefore, this dates this watch to between 1887 and 1907. We have many other collectable items for sale at affordable prices, please feel free to take a look. This item is in the category "Jewellery & Watches\Watches, Parts & Accessories\Watches\Pocket Watches".

The seller is "hashtag_curios" and is located in this country: GB. This item can be shipped to United Kingdom, Antigua and Barbuda, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Australia, United States, Bahrain, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, China, Israel, Hong Kong, Norway, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Korea, South, Taiwan, Thailand, Bangladesh, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Barbados, Brunei Darussalam, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Egypt, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Grenada, French Guiana, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Macau, Monaco, Maldives, Montserrat, Martinique, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Turks and Caicos Islands, Aruba, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Chile, Bahamas, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Kuwait, Panama, Philippines, Qatar, El Salvador, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay.

• Department: Women
• Case Material: Silver
• Movement: Mechanical (Manual)
• Type: Pocket Watch
• Display: Analogue
• Brand: Antique
• Case Colour: Silver