UNSIGNED

UNSIGNED, ENGLAND, LARGE AND HEAVY MINUTE REPEATING, PERPETUAL CALENDAR & CHRONOGRAPH, 18K GOLD
A very fine, large and heavy, 18k yellow gold, manual wind hunting cased keyless pocket watch with minute-repeating, perpetual calendar, chronograph (60-minute register) and moon phases. Counter-enamel dial signed "Willis" (the most famous English manufacturer of enamel dials of the time).The case with London hallmarks for 1904-5, typical English style case with the makers punch mark ''FT LONDON'' for Federick Toms and an A for Arthur Bamford..
Brand: Unsigned, England
Year: 1904-1905
Case: 2585
Caliber: 19''', matte gilt, three-quarter plate, jeweled to the center with screwed gold chatons, lateral lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with temperature and meantime adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Chronograph work mounted on the backplate activated by a button in the band.
Diameter: 57 mm.
Signature: ''FT LONDON'' for Federick Toms, movement numbered

Grading System: AAA (Excellent)
Case: 2-8 (Very good , Slightly scratched)
Dial: 2-01 (Very good , HANDS Original)
Movement: 2* (Very good , Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense)

HKD: 130,000 - 218,000
USD: 16,600 - 27,700
EUR: 15,300 - 25,500

Although unsigned by the maker or retailer, the quality is typical of the best English work of the turn on the 20 century.
Both Toms and Willis were renowned for the quality of their respective specialities.
Size: 57 mm.
Signature: ''FT LONDON'' for Federick Toms, movement numbered