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Box, Second view of box, Front, Dial, Movement

Election 80 mm flat cased deck watch, 17 jewel lever escapement with hack feature and counter rotating up down mechanism, stewind, pendent set, open face, serial number 524,688, ca. 1916. Engraved silver dial with wind indication disk. Signed Chronometre Election Grand Prix Bern 1914. Locking brass reinforced box.

The wind indicator is a differential mechanism that turns the hand when winding and the small dial as it runs down. The hack mechanism is operated by moving the brass plug from its holding position on the left to the hacking position in the brass receiver on the right.