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The licence-plate-watch-object is round and square at the same time. It comes in twoversions:
a) a limited editionsigned and hand-numbered 001/700-700/700 in a stained wooden box with ten embossed licence plates (9 x 25.6 cm), nine of the "Länder" (federal states) of Austria and one with the coat-of-arms of imperial Vienna.
All coats-of-arms have been adapted by Hundertwasser for the licence-plates and redesigned according to heraldry.
The face of the watch of the limited, signed and hand-numbered edition bears the letters of the Austrian "Länder", according to the old traditional number plates:S O N BV T K StSalzburg - Oberösterreich (Upper Austria) - Niederösterreich (Lower Austria) - Burgenland Vorarlberg - Tyrol - Kärnten (Carinthia) - Steiermark (Styria)
"W" for Vienna is on the turning disk.
On the reverse of the watch:- the specimen number- the dates 1988-1998- Hundertwasser's signature- The engraved text says:
BLACK ON WHITE. MAINTAIN OUR IDENTITY AND INDEPENDENCE ON THE ROADS OF EUROPE. FOR BEAUTY AND ELEGANCE. WORTHY OF A CULTURE NATION. A SHOWCASE OF AUSTRIA.

b) an unlimited edition
The watch-face of the unlimited version bears the new classification by the capitals of the Austrian "Länder":S L P E B I K G Salzburg - Linz - St. Pölten - Eisenstadt Bregenz - Innsbruck - Klagenfurt - Gaz
Engraved on the reverse: DIENUMMERNTAFEL UHR
The unlimited licence-plate-watch comes in a cardboard box.
Enlarged by an incorporated magnifier, the nine coats-of-arms of the Austrian "Länder" redesigned by Hundertwasser for the number plates, as well as the "W" for Vienna and the "12" for noon, can be adjusted on a turning disc on both editions.
Produced by LAKS WATCH, Vienna.
Published by Gruener Janura AG, Glarus.
(after: brochure accompanying 985 Nummerntafel-Uhr/Licence-plate-watch-object, Glarus, 1999)