Elgin Key-Set Minute Hand Fitting

This is a key-set movement, meaning that the time is set using a key that fits over the square hub in the middle of the hands.  The hands are then turned directly.

Such watches have a minute hand with a square hole at the end (the "boss") to fit on the hub.  In this case it looks to me like a normal round-holed hand, for a stem-set movement, has had the hole filed roughly square.  It didn't really fit though, and would not go on far enough to allow the use of the key.

In order to preserve as much "as found" as possible, I expanded and squared to hole a bit rather than stick a new hand, or the expected type, on there.

This is a case where this past repair does no harm, and is just part of the history of the individual piece.

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