Keyless pocket watch with 3/4-plate movement, Roskopf pin-pallet lever escapement, plain brass balance and manual hand-setting. The watch has an enamel dial with brass hands, Roman numerals and no seconds indication. It is held in a white-metal half-hunter case with a hinged cover with blue-filled Roman numerals and a snap-on back. The movement is inscribed '2 ROSKOPF' and the back of the case has a circular trade mark, 'ROSKOPF PATENT'.

In the 1860s, Roskopf introduced the world's first really inexpensive watches.