STB Meeting - Remember Automatic Alarm - AS 5008 very rare

This is a very rare STB automatic alarm powered by the legendary AS calibre 5008. There weren't that many automatic alarm calibre even back in the hayday of the 60s and 70s. Only Omega(Lemania), LeCoultre, Seiko and A. Schild have developed automatic alarm calibres. Only the 5008 are sold as ebauches to other smaller watch manufacturers. In fact I had encountered a relatively new modern Maurice Lacroix (in the 90s) that were fitted with they AS 5008.

I have learned that the company STB was an manufacturer of pigeon racing clock/timer as their main business. So somewhere in time (most likely to be in the 70s) someone at STB had commissioned a batch of wristwatches and designed a illustrated pigeon dial to go with it. There are a white dial version as well.

STB Meeting - Remember Automatic Alarm - AS 5008

Movement:

• Lengendary AS 5008 automatic movement. Swiss Made.
• Automatic.
• Double winder crown.
• Day/date function. Quickset by pulling out winding crown at 2 o'clock by 1 click
• Super High beat 28,800 p/h.
• 25 Jewels. 
• Twin mainspring barrels (1 for the alarm, 1 for the drive train.) 
• Power reserve roughly 49 hours.
• Size: Diameter - 30mm, Height - 7.6mm.
• Incabloc shock protection system.
• Alarm lasts approx 10s.

Case and bracelet:

• Solid tonneau two tone stainless steel case with stylish hidden lug.
• Circular grain top and polished sides.
• Case width is 38.5mm not including the crown, 40mm from top to bottom.
• Lug size is 20mm.
• Unsigned original steel crown.
• Original acrylic crystal.
• After market stainless steel bracelet with  unsigned clasp.

The dial and hands:

• Beautiful silver black dial with a beautiful pigeon illustration. 
• Raised and steel baton hourly markers.
• Dial marked STB, Meeting Remember, Automatic and Swiss Made at 6.
• Polished steel hour and minute hands with lume slot.
• Polished steel second hand
• Polished steel alarm setting hand with painted red arrow tip.

Beautiful and rare pigeon illustration on this dial. Also note the quadrant background grain

Close up of the pigeon illustration

Solid stainless steel case

Double crown - the one at 2 is for setting time and day/date, the one at 4 is for setting and arming the alarm

After market stainless steel bracelet

Stainless steel screw back - marked Incabloc, Alarm, Automatic, Stainless Steel, Water Protected and case number 1323

Different crown to indicate different function

Lengendary AS 5008 Automatic alarm movement - please note the twin mainspring barrel

Fine micro adjustment at the balance cock and the hammer of the alarm is visible to the right of the balance