Calling all Pocket Watch Buffs

Canuck · Oct 21, 2023

I haven’t shown this one for a while. My 1884 Stewart Dawson, Liverpool, key wind pocket watch, key set, sterling case, and the accompanying sterling silver chain, pocket knife, 50-cent silver Canadian coin in a 14-karat gold coin frame. Stewart Dawson founded a jewellery store in Liverpool, England, in 1876. He expanded to grow into many branches in the British Commonwealth. I thought I might wear this on Sunday as Canadian prairie winter weather with high winds are forecast on Sunday. The combination as pictured weighs 4 3/4 ounces Troy, or about 5 3/5 ozs av. Might come in handy in the case of high gusts, having this in my pockets.

TexOmega · Oct 23, 2023

Hamilton Watch Co.
12s 19j grade 900…. Wow, what beautiful damascening.
Year: 1919
Last gasp clean out of their Gothic Font
Solid Diamond/Kite blued hands

Hamilton Factory Case

Canuck · Oct 23, 2023

Also, a gold train, except for the escape wheel. This little confection is only a jewel or three short of being a Masterpiece! Equipped the way this one is, you have to wonder why 12-size watches were not acceptable for railroad service! Of course, time service rules generally toed the line fairly uniformly by railroads, but time service rules still were known to vary from those hard and fast rules. Maybe there was a railroad somewhere that would have accepted this one? Very nice in any event!

ghce · Oct 23, 2023

TexOmega
Hamilton Watch Co.
12s 19j grade 900…. Wow, what beautiful damascening.
Year: 1919
Last gasp clean out of their Gothic Font
Solid Diamond/Kite blued hands

Hamilton Factory Case

You sir, have too many nice Pocket Watches ! 😁

Canuck · Oct 23, 2023

ghce
You sir, have too many nice Pocket Watches ! 😁

How many is “too many”? I’ve just made an offer on yet another wrist watch which is coming up for auction! Like I need another watch? The one I refer to is a really nice Eterna electronic with the same Eta tuning fork movement in it that Omega used in their F300 models. Eterna called the movement “Eternasonic”.

“Another watch”, she said!
“You’re talking like my ex-wife”, he said!
“You didn’t tell me you’d been married before”, she said.
“I haven’t”, he said!

Bernhard J · Oct 24, 2023

What shall I say (to my wife)? There is an interesting long case clock coming up for auction (and I have already six .... ) 🙄😁

Canuck · Oct 24, 2023

Tell her not to be concerned, as long as there is space for her in the house!😉

On an NAWCC tour of England in 2000, we visited a fellow who had 13 TOWER CLOCKS in his home. I asked his wife who dusted the tower clocks. She did the housekeeping, and he dusted the tower clocks. He ran a museum for these clocks out of his house. Business was slow, so as a side gig, he bought a cider press at auction, and sold apple cider in a roadside stand. The cider press sat outside. It was very large. Quaint guy!

Duracuir1 · Oct 24, 2023

My wife has more watches, shoes and clothes than me. Plus many purses and handbags (I have none of those… they are for the « man bun » types.).

Safe to say you are all in the same position as me.

I picked up this very cheap watch on the weekend. Gave it some daily winds and she is keeping time.

Will use it as a lanyard display piece. The engraving is sweet though.

View attachment 1682636 There was also a (pill?) box with a pocket watch look.

Must be from Las Vegas. They have a building like that in Vegas.

ArchAngel · Oct 25, 2023

My only pocket watch. Was my father's.

Canuck · Oct 25, 2023

ArchAngel
My only pocket watch. Was my father's.

Welcome to our little corner of the Omega Message Board. You’re in good company. I have several pocket watches in my collection that have come to me from ancestors. Watches with a family connection are always extra special.

TexOmega · Oct 25, 2023

ghce
You sir, have too many nice Pocket Watches ! 😁

I don’t own gillions, just one more than my pocket watch owning buddies!

That’s my LIMIT😁

Canuck · Oct 25, 2023

TexOmega
I don’t own gillions, just one more than my pocket watch owning buddies!

That’s my LIMIT😁

@TexOmega could well have one more than his pocket watch collecting buddies. I only have 53 pocket watches. I’d cry in my beer, but I also have 70 wrist watches!

Bernhard J · Oct 26, 2023

May I join? I count presently 82 pocket watches, 68 wristwatches, and 49 clocks (in various sizes)

Canuck · Oct 26, 2023

Bernhard J
May I join? I count presently 82 pocket watches, 68 wristwatches, and 49 clocks (in various sizes)

I think you said your wife is still with you? Clocks-wise, i’m a beginner! I only have about a dozen. But I can say that I keep nine clocks, watches, and marine chronometers running, in the living room! And my wife has about a dozen watches, most of which I have acquired for her.

Bernhard J · Oct 26, 2023

Canuck
I think you said your wife is still with you?

I push myself really hard in order to "overcompensate" in other fields (no details to be provided).... 😁

ArchAngel · Oct 26, 2023

Canuck
I think you said your wife is still with you? Clocks-wise, i’m a beginner! I only have about a dozen. But I can say that I keep nine clocks, watches, and marine chronometers running, in the living room! And my wife has about a dozen watches, most of which I have acquired for her.

Although not a "clock" thread...
My only antique clock. Was my grandmother's....

Duracuir1 · Oct 26, 2023

ArchAngel
Although not a "clock" thread...
My only antique clock. Was my grandmother's....
...thought I had a photo...will have to add it later.

A New Haven Clock Co label is better than taunting us with 82 pocket watches, 68 wristwatches and 49 clocks and no photos. @Bernhard J … come on man!

I am getting a cheap lot of pocket watches later today. They were listed at auction for parts or repair. One is a Smiths. I have a Smiths so this could be a parts watch. Photos to follow.

Bernhard J · Oct 26, 2023

Duracuir1
A New Haven Clock Co label is better than taunting us with 82 pocket watches, 68 wristwatches and 49 clocks and no photos. @Bernhard J … come on man!

😁 Okay, here is one bought fairly recently. About 1780. Quarter repeater on a bell and date. Nevertheless comparably very thin.

You want a clock also? This one was bought about 3 decades ago. Guess what it is 😎 😉

Duracuir1 · Oct 26, 2023

Bernhard J
😁 Okay, here is one bought fairly recently. About 1780. Quarter repeater on a bell and date. Nevertheless comparably very thin.

You want a clock also? This one was bought about 3 decades ago. Guess what it is 😎 😉

Bravo sir! All I can say about the clock is that it is less than 150 years old, looks beautiful. The Matthey had me look up Mathey Tissot. Different spelling. Thank you!! A few months ago I picked up this book at the old bookstore.

I thought of you when I bought it. I suspect you have seen this one before.

Bernhard J · Oct 26, 2023

I indeed have this book since short, in particular the front page appealed to me. Because I could tell my wife that she ought to be happy that our home does not look like this. And that my appearance differs as well somewhat... 😁