Ecole d'Horlogerie Max Junod

Ecole d'Horlogerie Max Junod, Technicum Cantonal, Bienne, No. 181. Made circa 1910. Fine, Ecole d'Horlogerie, damascened silver and gold, keyless pocket watch with 24-hour dial. To be sold without reserve Four-body, “demi-bassine”, damascened bezel decorated with a repeated pattern, the damascened back with leaf stripes and repeat-pattern border, the center inlaid with a gold lion rampant and foliate cartouche with engraved initials “MJ”. Hinged silver cuvette. White enamel, three-piece, painted black Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, inner red 24-hour numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel pear and double-feuille hands. 41 mm., 18’’’, frosted gilt, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 53 mm.