[PRESENT OF THE TSAR OF RUSSIA] Yellow gold (585) "savonnette" pocket watch with engraved, chased and partially enameled polychrome double-headed imperial eagle of Russia on a guilloché background, mechanical movement with manual winding, white enameled circular dial with hours in Roman numerals and minutes in Arabic numerals, with seconds, interior engraved with AK monogram. With gold (750) link chain. By Pavel BUHRÉ, engraved in Russian with Supplier to the Imperial Court. Numbered 19830. Diameter: 5 cm. Gross watch weight: 92.9 g. With a gold link chain (750). Chain weight: 23.9 g. History : The history of the Burhé family business began in St. Petersburg in 1815 with the arrival of Karl Burhé and his son, Pavel Karlovich. Pavel Pavlovich Burhé (1842-1892), son of the latter, after studying at the Sankt-Petri-Schole, joined his father's family business in 1868 at the age of 26. In 1874, he bought a large watch factory in Le Locle, Switzerland. At the same time, he entered the service of the Russian Imperial Court, as watchmaker to the Hermitage Palace and expert to the Supreme Court from 1879. In the last decades of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th, the company became Russia's leading watch manufacturer. To expand their business, the firm opened boutiques in Moscow and Kiev. In 1889, it won a silver medal at the Universal Exhibition, and in 1899, was named official supplier to the Imperial Court, subsequently producing numerous imperial and diplomatic gifts. Our watch, with its crowned imperial eagle, is a gift from the Emperor of Russia, either the last Tsar Nicholas II (1894-1917), or his father Alexander III (1881-1894). Literature: - Similar watches are shown in "The Russian Imperial award system", U. Tillander-Goldenheim, Helsinki, 2005, p. 208 (nos. 86-88).