2836 - IWC, exceptionally rare and large pocket watch, Frauenfeld Federal Shooting Festival, 1890.

IWC, exceptionally rare and large pocket watch, Frauenfeld Federal Shooting Festival, 1890. Silver 935. D 54.5 mm. Provenance: 52927, elaborate case, overall well preserved, with relief engravings and gold hinges, finely engraved cuvette Exhibited: Well-preserved enamel dial with Roman numerals and original rose-gold hands Exhibited: Fine manual-winding movement no. 46428 with lever escapement and two-thirds plate, four screwed chatons, screw compensation balance with Breguet hairspring and florally engraved balance cock, finely bevelled and polished edges of the lever and regulator index None Only 582 examples of this shooting-festival watch were made, making it one of the rarest Swiss shooting-festival watches. The reverse bears the Swiss coat of arms, surmounted by those of the canton of Thurgau and the town of Frauenfeld, together with a ribbon inscribed ‘Einer für Alle, Alle für Einen’ (‘One for all, all for one’), surrounded by heraldic and floral motifs. Border inscribed: Eidgenössisches Schützenfest 1890 Frauenfeld.