Marcks & Co. A fine and rare 18K gold openface minute repeating full calendar keyless lever watch with split centre seconds, phases of the moon and thermometer

SIGNED MARCKS & CO., BOMBAY & POONA, NO. 2296, CIRCA 1900

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Marcks & Co. A fine and rare 18K gold openface minute repeating full calendar keyless lever watch with split centre seconds, phases of the moon and thermometer
Signed Marcks & Co., Bombay & Poona, No. 2296, circa 1900
With gilt-finished fully jewelled lever movement, bimetallic compensation balance, wolf's tooth winding, repeating on two polished steel hammers onto a gong, gold cuvette, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals, gold spade hands, four subsidiary dials indicating phases of the moon combined with thermometer calibrated from minus 15 to plus 25 Réaumur, day, date and month, in circular case with engine-turned cover, repeating slide in the band, split centre seconds mechanism operated through a button in the band, dial and cuvette signed
55 mm. diam.

Sale room notice

Please note that the present watch does not feature a split seconds chronograph mechanism as stated in the printed catalogue but split centre seconds.

Lot Essay

Watches have been introduced into the Far East about 1600 by merchants and missionaries but have doubtless been known even earlier in India, where they had been for a long time an important commodity.

These pieces made for the Indian Market usually featured Swiss movements with every conceivable complication and were retailed by renowned companys such as Marcks & Co.

René Réaumur (1683-1757), a French physicist and naturalist, invented an alcohol thermometer in 1731 and devised the Réaumur temperatur scale in which the freezing point of water is 0° and the boiling point 80°.

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