S. I. Tobias Pair-case stop-seconds pocket watch, patented Massey lever escapement; 18K yellow gold | Only Online Auction | Geneva,January 3, 2022
S. I. Tobias Pair-case stop-seconds pocket watch, patented Massey lever escapement; 18K yellow gold, 18K yellow gold, pair-cased open-face, key-winding, round-shaped, pocket watch, with subsidiary seconds at 6, stop-seconds (activated by the push-piece located on the case-band at 4:30) and patented escapement., Outer case with cast, chased and engraved, bezel and border; inner case polished., Gold amati dial with applied pink gold polished radial Roman numerals, with, in the centre, applied varicoloured flowers and foliage decoration; pink gold “Spade” hands., Movement 19’’’, full plate, fire gilded brass, turned baluster pillars, Liverpool ‘windows’ jeweling with screwed chatons, fusee and chain, maintaining power, patented detached Massey lateral lever escapement (type II), monometallic three-arm balance (probably gold) with peripheral adjustment screws and blued steel flat hairspring, engraved gilded English cock inscribed “Patent”, large diamond end-stone in a blued steel setting, blued steel index regulator; gilded brass sprung dust ring.
