Calling all Pocket Watch Buffs

ghce · Nov 23, 2023

Canuck
These are my two versions of your Omega. One, a private label for A Logan, jeweller and railroad watch inspector, Greenwood, British Columbia (Canada), and the other with dial name Louis Brandt & freres. These are both Brandt grade CCR (19-jewels), railroad approved in Canada. Basically the same as your newly acquired Omega.

Hi Doug, that first one looks to have the same stem / crown tube assembly as mine.
On mine the internals of the assembly arn't doing their job with the the crown being fully up in hand adjustment position and not locking down to the normal wind position.
My watch maker doesnt know the correct proceedure to dissasemble it and fears further damage if he attempts to take it apart, do you know how to remove the crown and stem on this system?

Close up picture of mine

Canuck · Nov 23, 2023

If yours is a Brandt CCR, 16-size as are my two, your watch should be LEVER SET! Thereby, pulling the stem out to set the hands won’t work. I think you said in a recent post that you’d be keeping your eyes peeled for one of these. They are around! Is this actually a CCR, one that you acquired very recently? Your pictures are NO help whatsoever in helping me conclude what it is that you have!

Canuck · Nov 23, 2023

I am unable to tell if your case is a swing ring case like my private label CCR. If it is, remove the bezel, swing the movement outwards, grasp the stem with pliers, and unscrew the crown. The gold colour cap unscrews, and I believe there is packing (leather?) beneath it. Remove that, and the sleeve will be exposed. However, al this isn’t necessary on a lever set watch!

ghce · Nov 23, 2023

Canuck
I am unable to tell if your case is a swing ring case like my private label CCR. If it is, remove the bezel, swing the movement outwards, grasp the stem with pliers, and unscrew the crown. The gold colour cap unscrews, and I believe there is packing (leather?) beneath it. Remove that, and the sleeve will be exposed. However, al this isn’t necessary on a lever set watch!

Much appreciated Doug, yes it's a swing out movement, crown set.
Just the info I need, will have a go at it later today.

Canuck · Nov 23, 2023

ghce
Much appreciated Doug, yes it's a swing out movement, crown set.
Just the info I need, will have a go at it later today.

A stem-set Brandt grade CCR? Or is the movement an Omega? Similar, but still a great deal of difference!

ghce · Nov 23, 2023

Yes stem set Omega movement but the case is the issue but seems to be identical to your one so I am guessing the method of disassembly is likely the same.

Alpha · Nov 25, 2023

And again today, strange I know but there is something about a pin set I really like 😀

Canuck · Nov 25, 2023

I have only one pin-set timepiece. My WWII Hamilton series 22 marine chronometer in the picture. One difference between the pin-set on the subject pocket watch, the pin on the Hamilton must be pulled outwards in order to engage the setting mechanism.

TexOmega · Nov 25, 2023

My other Hamilton grade 996 was from 1915

This one is from 1917 and I couldn’t pass up a pristine Montgomery Safety Numerical dial and equally handsome movement with my favorite( one of my favorite) decorative designs.

Hamilton display case

noelekal · Nov 25, 2023

TexOmega
My other Hamilton grade 996 was from 1915

This one is from 1917 and I couldn’t pass up a pristine Montgomery Safety Numerical dial and equally handsome movement with my favorite( one of my favorite) decorative designs.

Hamilton display case

OOOooo... I think that Hamilton movement is really pretty. It shares some decorative similarities with the Hamilton 946.

TexOmega · Nov 25, 2023

Yep, that is why I said one of my favorite.....👍

Canuck · Nov 25, 2023

I had an opportunity to buy a Hamilton grade 996, last year. But a mutual friend of mine and the owner of the watch, had dibs on it. He procrastinated on it for so long, the owner of the watch shipped it off to Jones & Horan. Grrrrr! That is a fairly rare bird, that one. I was unable to read the s#, so wasn’t able to research it. With the jewelled motor barrel, one might expect the 996 to be 21 or 23 jewels, but it has 19-jewels.

So I find solace in the fact that I own a Swiss-made Electa (Gallet) for 1906 that for all the world leaves the impression it might be a facsimile of the 996. Or perhaps a “tribute” model to the Hamilton 950.

TexOmega · Nov 25, 2023

All grade 996 were 19j... likely price point specific vs competitors.

Bernhard J · Nov 28, 2023

Here a watch where I had bid very low, assuming that I would be overbid. But to my surprise I had the highst bid in the end 😀

Perfect dial, with colored tachymeter scales, perfect hands, practically untouched movement (see the screw heads), wonderful overall condition.

Canuck · Nov 28, 2023

@Bernhard J . I see a stamp on the pendant, just below the crown on your first picture. What can you tell us about the case? Such a watch, at a price you liked! How sweet it is!

Bernhard J · Nov 28, 2023

That presumably is the Swiss stamp for 800 silver, the capercaillie. The case lids are stamped accordingly. But I will have to check for this.

Canuck · Nov 28, 2023

Bonus! Beautiful watch WITH a silver case!

ghce · Nov 29, 2023

A quintet of Omegas, another one joined the Omega collective today and had a photo shoot with his happy band of running compatriots.

Waltesefalcon · Nov 29, 2023

Bernhard J
Here a watch where I had bid very low, assuming that I would be overbid. But to my surprise I had the highst bid in the end 😀

Perfect dial, with colored tachymeter scales, perfect hands, practically untouched movement (see the screw heads), wonderful overall condition.

That's a gorgeous watch! And I'd like to call dibs if you ever decide to part with it.

TexOmega · Nov 30, 2023

@Duracuir1 made me 3 lanyards with silver hardware when I wear WG or WGfilled PWs.

Wearing the forest in suede with my Illinois 161A Bunn

others are crimson and blue