Swiss Cortebert Silver Cased Dress Pocket Watch

Description

Swiss Cortebert 1920s dress pocket watch with top wind and time change in .900 silver case with Swiss hallmarking. Signed matt silvered dial with black numeric hours and blued steel hands with subsidiary seconds dial at 6 o/clock. Engine turned decorated jewelled lever movement with overcoil hairspring with 'HF' signed case back numbered 916753.

Case diameter - 48mm.

Huguenin Freres is one of the most important minting companies in Switzerland. Huguenin tries to create unique masterpieces which are still made by hand in Le Locle.

This item has been serviced and is guaranteed for a period of 1 year from the date of sale, subject to our standard Terms and Conditions of Guarantee.

Product code: PWOF133

Abraham-Louis Juillard opened his small watchmaking store in Cortébert village in Switzerland in 1790. This date is commonly used as the date of founding although the Cortébert brand name was not registered until 1855 using the bottony cross as a logo.
Cortébert became well known for their railroad watches: they supplied both the Turkish railroad system and the Italian railroad system, as well as a number of street car systems throughout Europe.
In the early 1970s, Cortébert suffered deeply from the quartz revolution sweeping the world watch industry.
Cortébert closed in the early 1970s and production ceased.