🔴 800 SILVER women's pocket watch to be overhauled vintage parts REMONTOIR 6

Specimen no. 6

Antique REMONTOIR pocket watch with case chiseled in HAND-CHISELLED SILVER by master goldsmiths of the time, all original made in the late 1800s early 1900s, ceramic dial with scalloped hands

⚙️ Manual winding mechanism

🛠️ to be repaired - spare parts

💎 In precious metal 800% SILVER

🔬 Acid tested to verify the purity of the noble metal

Case diameter: 2.8 cm; height with hook: 3.5 cm

🔍 Conservative state as per photo

📖 An age of ink and genius: In the heart of the 19th century and until the dawn of the 20th, when elegance was marked by the discreet chimes of time, the ladies of the great European capitals—from Vienna to Paris, from London to Turin—kept small silver secrets in their busts or hanging from precious chains on their chests: they were pocket watches, finely chiseled, often in 800 or 925 silver, adorned with floral motifs, cameos, or hand-engraved initials. It wasn't just a functional object. It was a symbol.

Aristocratic women, but also the first independent intellectuals and artists, wore it as a jewel of modernity.

It was the era of George Sand, Marie Curie, the first suffragettes, and the ladies who wrote love letters in the literary cafés of Montmartre. In those pockets or hanging from their corsets, watches kept more than a precise time: they told tales of train journeys to the Riviera, of masked balls, of gaslit salons and whispered voices between velvet curtains.

Wearing a silver pocket watch that once belonged to a lady today is like touching the wrist of another era. It's like feeling the gentle pulse of a changing society, one that opened the doors of knowledge, art, and freedom to women.