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The Aurora Watch Co was formed in Aurora, Illinois in 1883, turning out a little over 100,000 watches during their 7-year run, with a solid percentage of them being 6-size ladies watches, so any good example is worth owning. The two-tone gilding portion of the plates on this example is among the brightest that I've seen, even after 135 years, which is always an indicator of condition, and it's a very uncommon pattern with rosettes and snowflakes in a circular ring. It's a lever-set 15-jewel Grade 8, fully restored back to factory with a new alloy mainspring and a thorough cleaning. All of its factory jeweling is present and still intact, an increasingly difficult thing to find now, and even has its original mainspring barrel with a two-tone pattern on the cover and a full set of conical blued screws. The double-sunk Roman-numeral dial is flawless and snow white behind blued open morning-glory hands. The 20-year Wadsworth Pilot case is in fantastic shape with very little wear and tight hinges, a sharp crown, a glass crystal, and initials on the shield and again on the cuvette.