| An early 20th Century Swiss lever in an unusual gold and champleve enamel open face case. Keyless nickelled 17 jewel bar movement with going barrel. Plain cock with polished steel regulator, compensation balance with blue steel overcoil hairspring. Club foot lever escapement. Signed metal dial with
subsidiary seconds, Arabic numerals, blue steel Breguet hands. Unusual slim 18 carat open face case decorated in a similar fashion to Swiss watches of the mid 19th Century. The back of polychrome champleve enamel panels on a black ground radiating from the central small green section. Gold cuvette, maker's mark "AW" in an oval.
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