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Very cool. This is a very unusual Swiss timepiece
that was made to attach to the center of a rotary telephone dial. This
was a very convenient timepiece that not only gave you the current time,
it also let you keep track of the length of your phone calls. This was
important in those days as long distance calls were very expensive and
you were charged by three-minute blocks of time. We take long distance
calls for granted today but they were quite costly in those days and you
tried to keep them under three minutes. If you went over, you may as
well keep talking because you were already going to be charged for the
next three minutes. This neat Swiss watch has the date at 3:00 and
a programable timer at 9:00 and IT WINDS AUTOMATICALLY AS YOU DIAL THE
PHONE! Never sold and absolutely new old stock complete with original
box and instruction papers. We have never seen one of these before. Very
cool, very collectable. |
