| A late 19th Century Swiss perpetual calendar, minute repeating lever in a gold full hunter case. Keyless gilt bar movement with going barrel, frosted steel wolf's teeth winding work. Plain cock with polished steel regulator with snail micrometer adjustment. Compensation balance with blue steel overcoil
hairspring. Club foot lever escapement, escape and lever pivots with endstones in polished steel settings. Slide minute repeating on two polished steel gongs. White enamel dial with subsidiaries for day and date, black Roman numerals and red Arabic numerals for the minutes. At twelve o'clock a gold and enamel disc showing phases of the moon marked to twenty nine and a half at the edge of the aperture in the dial. At six o'clock a subsidiary showing
continuous seconds, month and four years in red the leap year marked "Annee Bissextile". Blue steel and gold hands. Substantial plain 18 carat gold full hunter case. The days of the week and moonphase set by a levers under the front bezel and the date unusually by pulling a lever in the band and turning the crown.
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