Uhrenfabrik-Union, Glashütte in Sachsen

A VERY FINE GOLD AND NIELLO HUNTING CASED KEYLESS LEVER WATCH WITH ENGRAVED PROFESSOR GRAFF DECORATION AND ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF MINERVA CIRCA 1910, NO. 44056

• Movement: 1a quality, gilded three-quarter plate, gold lever and escape wheel, jewels carried in screwed gold chatons, bi-metallic compensation balance, decoratively engraved balance cock with precision swan-neck regulation, diamond endstone, signed and numbered Glashütter Uhrenfabrik Union, no.44056
• Dial: white enamel, Arabic numerals, outer minute track, sunken centre, recessed subsidiary seconds, gold Louis XV style hands, signed Uhrenfabrik Union Glashütte in Sachsen
• Case: 14ct pink gold, Louis XV, highly decorated, chased and engraved on both sides with Professor Graff decoration, the front centred with a blank cartouche, the back centred with an engraved head of Minerva in profile, each of the central cartouches surrounded by cornucopia, a pair of doves above and a heart beneath, all against a niello ground, borders of flower heads, bezels, band, pendant and bow with repeated geometric chased and engraved motifs, plain polished gold cuvette, further glazed movement cover, hand-set lever beneath bezel at 4 o'clock, covers and cuvette signed Uhrenfabrik Union Glashütte bei Dresden, case back and cuvette numbered 44056, case front numbered 56
diameter 60.5mm

Provenance:
Dr. H. Crott Auktionen, A. Lange & Söhne Glashütter Uhren, 27 April 1991, lot 102