WW1 BUREN TELEPHONE DIAL

Buren was named after the location of is initial start up at a little village in Switzerland called Buren, located on the banks of the Aare. The firm started 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, specifically bought the Buren factory to supply Swiss parts for the watches he was making in the UK. This later lead to a court case where he 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 were sold in Germany and the USA under the Buren name.

Lovely example of Telephone Case Trench Watch. Beautiful dial & nickle case. Really unusual dial with the luminous BLOBS with numerals over them. Very rare.

Lets look at some of its attributes:

1 Wire lugs
2 Enamel dial
3 Cathedral hands
4 Origional crown
5 Telephone dial case
6 Lever movement
7 35mm diameter