S.Smith & Sons Silver Cased Chronograph Pocket Watch

Description

Swiss silver cased chronograph pocket watch retailed by S.Smith and Sons of London with a London import hallmark for 1918 and numbered 176136. Top wind and time change with a single push chronograph activation button. White enamel dial and black Roman hours with blued steel hands and subsidiary seconds dial at 6 o/c. Sixty minute chronograph recording via the centre seconds hand and the minute's dial at 12 o/c. Swiss jewelled lever movement signed Contetout and numbered 352 - 71222, with overcoil hairspring and split bi-metallic balance and pillar wheel control system for the chronograph function.

Case Diameter - 51mm.

Samuel Smith began trading as jeweller and watchmaker in 1851 at 149/151 Newington Causeway, London. His son (also Samuel) took over the business aged 25 in 1875 after his fathers death. By end of the 19th century they had 6 shops and four royal warrants.
Allan Gordon Smith, youngest son of Samuel jnr , then took over the running of the firm, making clocks watches and motor accessories. In the 1920s Gordon set up ABEC, the All British Escapement Company. In the 1930s Smiths took over various clockmaking companies to become largest clock producer in Britain, including:
English Clock & Watch Manufacturers Ltd taken over by Smiths in 1932
Enfield Clocks purchased by Smiths in 1933 but allowed to continue trading independently for some years. Clocks and watches stopped being manufactured in around 1979, but the company is still active.

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Product code: PWOF103