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The watch has no feature for daylight saving time or time zones--its just a standard mechanical time and date only watch.
Based on the working of the watch, it is actually extremely unlikely to be a mechanical failure to be off by exactly one hour--expecialy AHEAD by a significant but even increment like that.
Frankly, the most likely culprit is user error. I myself have occasionally set a watch off by either 5 minutes or 1 hour by misreading the time. That's easier to do when the time is, say, about 40 minutes past the hour. At that point, the hour hand is closer to the NEXT hour marker.
I did it just yesterday. Picked up one watch, wound it, set it, got to work an hour later and it was exactly five minutes behind. After a bit, I realized I set it at about 40 minutes after the hour--and must have misread the dial of the other watch I set it by (which was lying on its side at the time) as 7:34 instead of 7:39.
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