| A late 19th Century Swiss lever with flyback minutes and digital hours in a gilt metal case. Keyless nickelled bar movement with going barrel. Plain cock with polished steel regulator. Uncut bimetallic balance with spiral hairspring. Club foot lever escapement. Unusual gilt
dial with the hours indicated by a silvered disc visible through an aperture under the twelve o'clock position. The minute hand traverses from zero minutes at the nine o'clock position to sixty minutes at the three o'clock position when the hand instantaneously returns to zero and the hour advances. Subsidiary seconds, blue steel hands. Gilt metal open face case, rubbed engine turned back with a vacant shield shaped cartouche, signed on the gilt cuvette.
Unusual flat glass crystal with concave inner face.
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