Buren World War I Telephone Dial Trench Watch

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Buren World War I Telephone Dial Trench Watch

Buren was named after the location of its initial start-up in a little village in Switzerland called Buren, located on the banks of the Aare.

The firm began in 1842 making watch parts.

In 1873, Buren started making complete watches and called themselves F Suter & Co.

F Suter & Co. continued with varying success to make watches with the trade name of 'Buren' for several years until it was taken over by the British firm of H Williamson Ltd in 1898.

H Williamson Ltd bought the Buren factory specifically to supply Swiss parts for the watches it was making in the UK.

This later led to a court case where Williamson was found guilty of selling 'English Made' watches with Swiss parts in them.

While H Williamson Ltd owned the Buren brand, they generally allowed the company to continue on its own, with them just being the parent company and receiving parts from them.

By 1905, Buren were making 500 watches a day, many of them for the parent company but some sold in Germany and the USA under the Buren name.

This is a lovely example of a Telephone Case Trench Watch.

Really unusual dial with luminous blobs with numerals over them.

Very rare.

Let's look at some of its attributes:

• Telephone dial case

• Lever movement

• Cathedral hands

• 35mm diameter

• Original crown

• Enamel dial

• Nickel case

• Wire lugs
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