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Uhrenfabrik Union. A fine and rare 18K gold hunter case minute repeating keyless lever watch

SIGNED UHRENFABRIK UNION, GLASHÜTTE IN SACHSEN, NO. 54615, CIRCA 1900

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Uhrenfabrik Union. A fine and rare 18K gold hunter case minute repeating keyless lever watch
Signed Uhrenfabrik Union, Glashütte in Sachsen, No. 54615, circa 1900
With three quarter plate gilt-finished jewelled lever movement, screwed gold chatons, blued screws, bimetallic compensation balance with gold poising screws, gold lever and escape wheel, finely engraved balance cock, swan neck regulator with diamond endstone, minute repeating on two polished steel hammers onto a gong, missing glazed dust cover, gold cuvette, the white enamel dial with black Arabic numerals, gold Louis XV hands, sunk centre and subsidiary seconds, in large plain Lucia case, repeating slide in the band, case and cuvette signed and numbered and stamped with the "portal" hallmark, dial signed, movement signed and numbered
59 mm. diam.

拍品专文

Uhrenfabrik Union was founded on 1 January 1893 by the Dresden wholesaler Johannes Dürrstein (1845-1901). Born in Frankfurt/Main, Johannes Dürrstein started his career with the wholesaler Ludwig & Fries. In 1874 he and his brother Friedrich set up their own business Dürrstein & Co. in Dresden

Uhrenfabrik Union, trademark "Union", quickly became one of Germany's leading manufacturers of high quality watches, including small series of complicated timepieces such as pocket chronometers, tourbillons, perpetual calendar, repeating and striking watches. Union watches fitted with a Swiss ébauche were hallmarked with a bell surrounded by stars. Those entirely made in Germany, such as the present watch, featured the "portal" mark.

In 1901, Union presented the most complicated watch ever made in Glashütte, the "Universal Watch".