Apart from watch collecting, my other big hobby is photography. Occasionally, I've found watches that have built-in cameras, and almost universally they have been digital.
This watch is actually a wrist mounted film camera with a small watch on the same strap.
The watch is by the German company Foto-Quelle, and released under their Revue brand. The Foto Quelle released many film cameras under the Revue and Revueflex brands (but made by others, for example Zenit and Konica) from the late 50s, and by 1970 was the world's largest photographic retailer. This mixture of camera and watch came out sometime in the 1990s. It is described as "Die Kamera for aktive Schnappschüsse" which translates to "The Camera for active Snapshots".
The camera part is called a subminiature camera due to its tiny size. It takes the cartridge style Minox film, and is a basic camera with a single shutter speed setting.
The watch part is a basic digital LCD module in it's own housing. It has two buttons to operate the 4 digit display with time, date, and seconds options. Unfortunately, the camera collector I bought this off had left the battery in the watch so long it had leaked, destroying the module.
The instruction manual has 3 sets of numbers which could be model or catalogue numbers. These are BA-Z1-KB, 200.102 2 (the Bestell-Nr), and 330.014 5 (called Set).
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