Calling all Pocket Watch Buffs

DrmexicoII · Feb 21, 2024

Can't say I'm converted as I haven't yet bought a pocket watch but I view this thread religiously, slowly learning as I go. I see a pocket watch on the horizon with my name on it.

Mpatton · Feb 21, 2024

Canuck
Since there is not a forum for pocket watches, several of us pocket watch “nuts” have put our heads together to see if, by focussing on the topic of pocket watches in one “catch all” thread, we might be able, through combined synergism, actually have a thread to call our own.

My first pocket watch is one I inherited from my late father, 45 years ago. He was a watchmaker, and while he was not a railroad watch inspector, he had a large clientele among the local railroad engineers, conductors, firemen, and on and on. This was the watch he used as a bench chronometer. It is a Hamilton grade 992.

usasuisse · Feb 21, 2024

I find that holding a pocket watch has immense satisfaction even if it is only occasionally wound and run. The pocket watch is like jewelry to me.

Bernhard J · Feb 21, 2024

Sorry, I cannot contribute to the question of "conversion". I feel as if I have been collecting pocket watches since watches like this were made. OK, almost 😁

Alpha · Feb 21, 2024

Again today 😀

noelekal · Feb 21, 2024

I was a believer 40-something years ago when the owner of Silver Dollar pawn shop tried to interest me in his love of the pocket watches. Y'all just pushed me into to deep end Canuck ... TexOmega, DaveK, Duracuir1, Alpha, Mad Dog, Waltesefalcon, gche, and even Bernhard J along with others I'm probably leaving out.

Duracuir1 · Feb 21, 2024

I finished my latest lanyard. Very thin to fit my smaller Illinois.

This will give you a perspective of how thin this last lanyard is, compared to some of my previous ones. You can see that I need more pocket watches to go with all these chains and lanyards.

And still my favorite…

Duracuir1 · Feb 21, 2024

Since I accidentally duplicated my previous post, I changed the duplicate to show some RCMP (Canadian Mountie) gauntlet gloves circa 1930. No wrist watches with these I imagine.

The riding crop was issued to my dad in 1962, along with the long shank spurs. The boots were issued to me in 1989. The leather was pebbled and I had to iron them before polishing. The drill instructor had us run 2 or 3 miles in these during the summer.

noelekal · Feb 21, 2024

Duracuir1

Since I accidentally duplicated my previous post, I changed the duplicate to show some RCMP (Canadian Mountie) gauntlet gloves circa 1930. No wrist watches with these I imagine.

The riding crop was issued to my dad in 1962, along with the long shank spurs. The boots were issued to me in 1989. The leather was pebbled and I had to iron them before polishing. The drill instructor had us run 2 or 3 miles in these during the summer.

Good kit that!

Thanks for posting those photos.

TexOmega · Feb 21, 2024

My unmarked 18s Hamilton grade 943 from 1902 is a good one to mark an anniversary.

production# : 2400 total….not often seen, bought off the bay in 2000.

damascening and finishing at its’ finest, hard to get a representative picture!

Gabguzro · Feb 21, 2024

If only Hamilton would have made those 12s more standard-sized... I have a couple of 912 movements that I would love to restore, but finding cases for those is a bit difficult.

Pastorbottle · Feb 21, 2024

Both of my pocket watches are at the watch doctor’s at the moment (at great expense to the management)….. whist they’re not up to the standard of many of the fine pieces shown here, I like them and look forward to posting the pix here for your perusal, when they finally come home.

Canuck · Feb 21, 2024

The pocketwatchdatabase.com information on @TexOmega ’s Hamilton grade 943.

https://pocketwatchdatabase.com/search/result/hamilton/121970

I was interested to read that this hunter cased model was railroad approved. It certainly has everything necessary to make it railroad standard, but with the hunting case, I thought it odd that it was railroad approved! The data indicates the 943 had Class C approval. That there were a number of classes of railroad approval leads me to wonder if there is an explanation re: classes of approval!

The movement in the grade 943 appears to be the equivalent of my grade 941 that I showed, earlier. Yet my grade 941 (also hunter cased) is marked a not railroad approved! My grade 941 is a much later production model, and perhaps it was not considered railroad approved when it was made, because the standards had changed! My grade 941 was made circa 1913, while the grade 943 was made about 10 years earlier, Something to ponder.

Bernhard J · Feb 22, 2024

Duracuir1

So that looks a little bit special. But possibly also due to my questionable imagination 😟

Duracuir1 · Feb 22, 2024

Bernhard J
So that looks a little bit special. But possibly also due to my questionable imagination 😟

Here is a link to it. I posted it in the FS forum before. There was no interest so I kept it.
https://omegaforums.net/threads/pocket-watch-pouch-with-belt-clip.153507/

TexOmega · Feb 22, 2024

TexOmega
My unmarked 18s Hamilton grade 943 from 1902 is a good one to mark an anniversary.

production# : 2400 total….not often seen, bought off the bay in 2000.

damascening and finishing at its’ finest, hard to get a representative picture!

Sunlight pix are much nicer!