LOSADA RETROGRADE DATE
PERPETUAL CALENDAR YELLOW GOLD
Losada, 105 Regent Street, London, No. 6169. The
case with London hallmarks for 1867-68. Made for the
Hispanic market.
Fine, and extremely rare 18K yellow gold hunting cased
pocket watch with retrograde perpetual calendar.
Four-body, "bassine", by Alfred Stram (AS), covers,
band and bezels entirely chased and engraved with
floral and foliate decoration, front with engraved
monogram (missing front glass). Hinged gold cuvette.
Silver with applied gold decoration, radial Roman
numerals, outer minute track and outermost applied
gold leaf and flower pattern, center with applied gold
flower basket, subsidiary dials for constant seconds,
day and month indication, scale for retrograde date at
12. Blued steel fleur-de-lis hands.
17```, frosted gilt, fusee and chain, three quarter
plate, jeweled to all three with screwed gold chatons,
duplex escapement, cut bimetallic compensation
balance, blued steel flat balance spring, engraved cock
with diamond endstone, index regulator.