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Index No. M8809 English Perpetual Calendar Movement by Benson
A late 19th Century English lever with retrograde perpetual calendar and flyback chronograph.  Gilt three quarter plate keyless movement with going barrel. Plain Engraved cock with polished steel regulator, compensation balance with blue steel overcoil hairspring. English table roller lever escapement Screwed in jewelling, escape and lever pivots with endstones. Signed white enamel dial with centre seconds flyback chronograph, subsidiaries for continuous seconds, moonphase, day date and month. Roman numerals, blue steel hands.  The retrograde hand for the date which advances every day until the last day of the month (28th, 29th, 30th or 31st as appropriate) is reached when it flies back to the first.
SignedJ W Benson   25 old Bond St.    London   -   Watchmaker to HRH Prince of Wales
Circa 1880
Excellent, working.   Lacking month hand.
Diameter 44.5 mm
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