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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 659725, member: 25&quot;]The watch is a routine Swiss lever escapement, going barrel watch from the time the case was made, a bit late for key winding but the makers catered for people who were a bit old fashioned in their choice of mechanism.</p><p>I can see one interesting feature on the backplate of the movement. The barrel arbour has a screwed seat (three tiny screws round the winding square) which is usually associated with a jewelled bearing. I cannot see for sure from the movement picture if this is actually jewelled, inspection with a loupe should show a jewel as a dark glassy ring.</p><p>This would be an unusual feature usually only associated with much higer grade watches. The barrel arbour is the slowest moving arbour in the watch and jewelling it is somewhat gilding the lily.</p><p>To a real specialist collector this feature would command a small premium on an otherwise routine and mdestly valued watch.</p><p>The key is far newer than the watch. The watch size seems a little smaller than normal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another odd feature is that there does not appear to be a setting square on the cannon pinion (where the hands are fixed on) but this may be due to no more than my inability to see it. If it is not there this is very odd indeed, how is the watch set?</p><p><br /></p><p>Even the most common looking items can have unusual features.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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