Adolf Schneider, Glashütte & Dresden

A GOLD HUNTING CASED KEYLESS LEVER WATCH CIRCA 1870, NO. 1725

• Movement: gilded ¾ plate, gold lever and escape wheel, bi-metallic 'chronometer' compensation balance, 15 jewels, ruby endstone, signed and numbered A. Schneider, Dresden, no.1725
• Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute ring, sunken subsidiary seconds, blued steel hands, signed Adolf Schneider, Glashütte B/Dresden
• Case: 18ct gold, engine-turned covers, the front with blank cartouche to the centre, pusher for handset beside pendant, gold cuvette signed Adolf Schneider, Glashütte,
engraved Chronometer-Unruhe with floral garlands above
diameter 49mm

Provenance:
Reinhard Meis, A. Lange & Söhne Watchmakers of Dresden Vol II, 2012, p.178, figs.452-454