The pocket Watch database website is certainly your friend for finding out the details on your Waltham PW, unfortunately your photo of the movement is too unclear to get the number.
https://pocketwatchdatabase.com/
Plug in your serial number from the movement ( not the case) and the manufacturer and it should tell you all you need to know about the watch.[/QUOTE
Looks like an 1888 model, 7-jewel Waltham movement (mechanism). The case is marked made in America, but it has all the earmarks of a case made by the English Dennison Watch Case Co. Dennison was the agent in England for the Waltham Watch Co. at about the time your watch was made. The serial number on the mechanism doesn’t show very well in your one picture’s , but it would tell us the year the movement was made. But it was made some time after 1888. The marking on the dial is typical of a watch that was intended for sale in Britain. The A W W Co. on the dial means American Waltham Watch Co., Waltham, Mass.
The pocket Watch database website is certainly your friend for finding out the details on your Waltham PW, unfortunately your photo of the movement is too unclear to get the number.
https://pocketwatchdatabase.com/
Plug in your serial number from the movement ( not the case) and the manufacturer and it should tell you all you need to know about the watch.
The pocket Watch database website is certainly your friend for finding out the details on your Waltham PW, unfortunately your photo of the movement is too unclear to get the number.
https://pocketwatchdatabase.com/
Plug in your serial number from the movement ( not the case) and the manufacturer and it should tell you all you need to know about the watch.
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Ah, many thanks - really interesting - here’s the result.
One more thing. I suspect the mechanism in your watch was made to be fitted into a hunter case, one with a cover on both the front of the case, and the back. I think I see a mark on the flange on the inner lip of the case, around the movement, that indicates an alien case screw mark from a previous tenant. The colour of the case has a pink tone which is characteristic of a lot of English made cases.
Since you posted the pocketwatchdatabase info on your watch, it confirms that the movement is an 1888 model, made for a hunter case (not an open faced case). If I am correct about this being an English case (with an American movement), this was done to beat English import duties at the time.
Congratulations on your Hamilton, a 992 is an excellent way to start off a pocket watch collection. Here's mine:
Thanks for sharing yours. Nice to see the same hands. Gives a little more comfort in originality.
Also, I didn't know squat about PWs. Thanks to you all and the internet I learned what to look for. The rest was serendipity.
Edit: my seconds hand might be wrong...
Thanks for sharing yours. Nice to see the same hands. Gives a little more comfort in originality.
Also, I didn't know squat about PWs. Thanks to you all and the internet I learned what to look for. The rest was serendipity.
Edit: my seconds hand might be wrong...
I dont think your seconds hand is wrong at all, the rear of the hand matches the Hour and minute hands pointers so I am guessing with the seconds hands in the same style as the longer hands would look wrong in the seconds hand.
My Hunter Cased version
18s Rockford KWKS
Circa 1876
GW Ladd 4 hinge GF case
DP Blake Jewelry
Doesn't have the micro-regulator as the Open Face example shows.
