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Hi All....I'm at your mercy once again.

I'm failing badly with identifying this nice little swiss fob watch that needs a little bit of love.

It has a solid silver case with the three swiss silver bears hallmark.

The ~14 ligne movement is a swiss cylinder and it has a wheatsheaf makers mark in the dial side of the watch

All the serial numbers match up and I'm guessing from the three bears it's late 19th to early 20th century.

The thing is I can't find who the maker is.... anyone know?

Cheers

Al

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A bit of info, and some other similar (mirror-image in some cases) examples:

https://17jewels.info/movements/unknown/lepine-v/

https://watchparts24.de/Antique-movement-with-dial-14-defective-and-incomplete

https://www.millsys-watch.co.uk/henry--cie-movement-3821-for-project-or-parts-4878-p.asp

I get the impression these old "bar" style movement - and many old French mantel clock movements - were made from generic designs, with each individual maker using their own variations in details around the base design, as long as the end result fitted its case.

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Thanks for that....when I lifted the dial I was surprised to see a makers mark and a serial number that matched the case number.

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