Germany, Imperial. A Pocket Watch for Railway Personnel, with Patriotic Chain, by Eugen Porcher GTRexclude with insert pages printed in

with insert pages printed in black ink

He was educated in private schools and after graduating from Columbia University in 1873

A Tsuba (hand guard) depicting a scene with multiple oriental storks

the personal inscriptions in black typewriter face

the twelve o’clock arm bearing a raised crown

Germany, Imperial. A Pocket Watch for Railway Personnel, with Patriotic Chain, by Eugen Porcher GTRexclude with insert pages printed in(Taschenuhr). Constructed of a multi piece silver casing, the obverse featuring a white face with numerals 1 12 graded at five second intervals, in turn topped by 60 second stopwatch markers marked at five second intervals, with gilded hour and minute hands, featuring an additional 60 second stopwatch with an independently functioning arm, the reverse bearing a finely engraved depiction of a steam engine, topped by a wind up dials turn connecting to a