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Antique Piguet et Meylan repeater pocketwatch #2324588

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Antique Piguet et Meylan repeater  pocketwatch #2324588
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This is a signed P& M (Piguet et Meylan) 800 silver mechanical ladies pocket watch that I was told might possibly be a repeater. It has a little button on the top side that I was told when you press it made a noise to let you know the hour or half hour , quarter or minute. Historically, before electric lights, the only way to tell the time at night, was either to light a candle/lamp, which was bothersome, or to wait in anticipation for the clock's striking mechanism. The striking is usually activated by a slide at the case of the watch, or a plunger which is what this one has on its top side. This one has extremely ornate etchings on the edges as well as the flowers and leafs on the back. This has two back lids and open face on the front with a porcelain face that has seconds 14565 is the number on the inside case lid. The watch does not run as far as I can tell. This Swiss watch was made by such a genius (born in Le Brassus on 15 February 1772 and died in Geneva on 3 April 1845) who made some of the most beautiful in and unusual watches and tiny mechanicals. He made white mice which ran, paused, ran again and finished with a jump. He made pistol with a watch in the handgrip; when fired, a whistling bird emerged from the barrel. He was the first to build chiming watches using spring chimes rather than bells and he even invented an 'alarm ring'; this was a ring comprising a minute watch which would prick a steel pin into the finger at the appropriate time. In 1811, together ...
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<tr><td>Condition:GOOD as is</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1800's</td></tr>






<tr><td>Title:Antique Piguet et Meylan repeater pocketwatch</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:brooksville Fl</td></tr>
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