LOSADA RETROGRADE TRIPLE DATE YELLOW GOLD
Losada, 105 Regent Street, London, No. 6170. The case with London hallmarks for 1867-68.
Made for the South American market.
Fine, and extremely rare, keyless, 18K yellow gold hunting cased pocket watch with retrograde
date triple calendar. Accompanied by a fitted box.
Four-body, "bassine," by Alfred Stram (AS), covers, band and bezels entirely chased and engraved
with floral and foliate decoration, front with engraved monogram . Hinged gold cuvette engraved:
Manuel Fidel Castillo.
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```, gilt brass, 15 jewels, ¾ plate, lateral lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance,
blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator.