stem-winder

noun

a watch wound by an expanded crown on the bar projecting outside the case, as opposed to one wound by a separate key Also calledstem-winding watch

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There's a new bank examiner over at the First, and he's a stem-winder.

Stem-winder somehow has more life in it, more fancy and vividness, than the literal keyless-watch.

It is made with a stem winder, and therefore requires no key.

"Stem-winder and -setter," continued Barrifield, undisturbed.

It being a "stem winder," the supposition is that, in masticating its food, the fish wound up the watch daily.

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