Brand: Dent, London (33 Cockspur Street) Model: ‘Watchmaker to her Late Majesty’ Retailed by - Year circa 1902 Reference - Movement No. 32 276 (supplied by Nicole, Nielsen & Co., London, No. 11 494) Calibre 23’’’, manual-winding Case No. 32 276 (by Robert Benson North, London, successors to Nicole, Nielsen & Co., London) Material/s yellow gold (18-carat) Bracelet - Buckle - Dimensions Ø 64.5 mm. Thickness 29mm Length - Weight 269.4 gr. (approx.) Signature dial, case and movement Accessories - Dent Outstanding pocket chronometer, with nine horological complications, including, one-minute tourbillon regulator, minute-repeater, perpetual calendar, moon phases; yellow gold (18-carat) -- Yellow gold (18-carat), open-face, keyless-winding, round-shaped, large, heavy and impressive pocket chronometer, with subsidiary seconds at 6 o’clock and nine horological complications: One-minute tourbillon regulator (Nielsen-type 2 carriage) Minute-repeater by two hammers on two steel gongs (activated by the slide located on the case-band at 3 o’clock) Half-instantaneous perpetual calendar Date of the month (subsidiary dial at 3 o’clock) Day of the week (subsidiary dial at 9 o’clock; indications given in English) Month of the year (subsidiary dial at 12 o’clock; indications given in English) Age and phases of the moon (subsidiary dial, graduated from 0 to 29 ½, and aperture at 6 o’clock) Four-year cycle of leap-years (subsidiary dial at 12 o’clock) 30-hour power-reserve indication (subsidiary dial at 12 o’clock) -- Case: four-piece, ‘Bassine’, polished; yellow gold cuvette (dome); round-shaped clipped bow. Dial: egg-shell colour enamel (five-piece), with black painted radiating Roman numerals; external timer rail divided from five to five; blued steel ‘Poire Stuart’ leaf-shaped hands. Counter-enamel dial signed ‘Willis’ (the most famous English manufacturer of enamel dials of the time). Movement: calibre 23’’’ (supplied by Nicole, Nielsen & Co., London, No. 11 494), manual-winding, gilt brass, ¾ plate, fusee and chain, screwed-chatons (setting), spring detent escapement, cut bimetallic balance with gold poising screws and blued steel free-sprung hairspring with terminal curve, polished steel tourbillon carriage, Nielsen-type 2, with a counterpoised pink gold weight and polished screws The raised barrel is engraved with medallions announcing appointments (warrants) to ‘To Her Late Majesty’ (Queen Victoria; 1819-1901) and ‘To Him the Late Emperor of Russia’ (Alexander III; 1845-1894). Type of winding and time setting: winding and time-setting by the crown on the pendant.
