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Chap was selling an 'automatic pocket watch' on the bay, he'd no idea how it worked, and the photos were pretty fuzzy... I hadn't seen anything like it, so I took a punt on it... Turns out it's actually a Victorian Pedometer - those are miles not hours! The astute observer will notice that the divisions of the "hours" are quarters, not fifths... After a bit of cleaning and adjusting, it's a rather nice little thing! The 'pendulum' rotates the steel ratchet wheel. Calibrating it is going to be good exercise - I've walked 9 1/4 miles so far... Apparently Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd US president, is credited with its invention, or at least its introduction to the US...

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It sounds like one of the reversing wheels is faulty. I had an issue a while ago with this movement it ran great wound manually great but the auto just did not work correctly. On Marks advise changed the reversing wheels & problem solved. I noticed on the ETA service sheets there is now a special lubricant for these wheels.

I have the same watch Will but this one is genuine, it was owned by my uncle who was evacuated wounded at Dunkirk:

My condolences Micky, very sorry about your loss!