Horological Meandering

aaronm
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Historical Example

And of course, on an Annual, you can cheat like Breguet.  This movement was made in 1821-1824, but not cased and sold until the 1960s.  It has an Annual calendar around the rim(displaying both month and day with the same indication), moonphase, days of the week and a symmetrical display of mean solar time and sidereal time.  I apologize for the color of the second photograph, and the quality of all, they were taken by hand in a museum, through glass.
first the entire watch, click for a HUGE version

now two close-ups of the date ring of the dial


The watch seems to have no way to handle leap-year.  perhaps you just adjust the hand back to feb 28 on the 29th, and remember it.  I'm also not sure on the method of adjustment.  Now that the museum is more formal, they don't just take the watches out of the cases to show you them
-a