An Antique Russian Silver Imperial Award Key Wind Pocket Watch

with inscription FOR EXCELLENT SHOOTING

and with portraits of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna

Based on the portraits, this watch was made around 1896.

It is a rare type of Russian award pocket watch with an image of the royal couple on the dial.

Double portraits of Nicholas and Alexandra were used to decorate watches only for a brief period of time,

approximately between 1894 (the year of the wedding) and 1896 (the year of the coronation).

Diameter 50 mm (almost 2 in.)

The watch is in working order.

The lid of the silver case is engraved with two crossed rifles laid on a target surrounded by the inscription, “FOR EXCELLENT SHOOTING.”