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The Model 2 was the company's first hunting watch, conceived in 1886 and produced the following year. It was a skeletonized 3/4-plate design with a graceful cantilever over the center wheel pivot that continued the use of the long pallet escapement. Roughly 57,000 of the Model 2 were produced in all grades and jewel counts over the company's 30-year run, so any good example is worth owning. This is an ideal daily carry watch, housed in a truly enormous 4-ounce Keystone coin-silver case with offset hinges that has no dents and no inscriptions. The original snow-white dial carries the correct matching cursive signature under a glass crystal and the blued light spade hands complement it perfectly. The movement is a very solid 15-jewel Grade 52 with very bright gilt plates and every one of its original jewels is still intact. It was just fully restored and all the hardware was re-blued for the next owner, and it's keeping excellent time.