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The Aurora Company was founded in 1883 in a town of the same name in Illinois, near Chicago, with the unusual strategy of offering local jewelers a stake as investors, thereby gaining dealers all across the country. The factory only made two of the popular sizes of the day - 6 and 18,  both of which had a single plate layout. Hunters were the norm, but when doing runs of open-face pieces a fifth pinion was added to move the seconds hand opposite the winding stem. This 11-jewel example was fairly early in the production run and has an unusual polished-gilt finish. It's been fully restored with a new balance staff and a new alloy mainspring, and all of the jeweling appears to be original, an increasingly rare thing. The matching dial is flawless behind correct light spade hands and the gold-filled Premier case is in excellent shape with tight hinges, a tight bow, a sharp crown, a blank cuvette, and an NOS crystal. Matching lanyard and display stand included.