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Calling all Pocket Watch Buffs

Canuck
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https://pocketwatchdatabase.com/search/result/waltham/14470928

Cleaned up and with a new glass, it would be a worthy addition to your collection. Pretty much a twin for a 1908 model. One characteristic that helps define the 1899 model from the 1908 model is the winding stop click. Note the arrow pointing at the Breguet click on the later model. This one is a 23-jewel Vanguard model.

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Canuck Canuck
https://pocketwatchdatabase.com/search/result/waltham/14470928

Cleaned up and with a new glass, it would be a worthy addition to your collection. Pretty much a twin for a 1908 model. One characteristic that helps define the 1899 model from the 1908 model is the winding stop click. Note the arrow pointing at the Breguet click on the later model. This one is a 23-jewel Vanguard model.

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Simply beautiful, living in the antipodes has its disadvantages for sure, being on the ground in the US would be ideal but my wife would think me even crazier as the house would soon fill up with Illinois, Waltham, Elgin and Hamilton PW's ( and others too numerous to list).

Being an Engineer I am always filled with wonder and awe at these mechanical masterpieces that combine both beauty and sophisticated manufacturing techniques.
 
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Bought at auction tonight, working mid grade 620 movement in a nice case, needs a new glass.
Not rare or special but too cheap, paid less than US$60.00

https://pocketwatchdatabase.com/search/result/waltham/14470928

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As an aside to this purchase and referencing another comment last week re a cheap Hamilton PW of great collecting value I must add that the auction my purchase was in had 92 people watching it ( given NZ is a small country) and a total of 96 bids were placed, I only placed 1 bid, the winning one 😁 yet the item only achieved a figure of less than US$60.00 which to me is quite strange and does seem to indicate the serious side of the " Cost of Living Crisis" that is so routinely mentioned in the media. Good for us wishing to extend our collections probably not so good for those trying to reduce their collections.
Either that or there is a glut on the market with collectors and Joe public of a certain age dieing off, which seems also entirely possible as the other watch brand I am a strong collector of Roamer has seen a much larger than usual amount become available all estate items of a limited age period 1960 to about 1973 ( the ones I am interested in).
 
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Well I finally got this one back from the watch doctor it runs beautifully and keeps great time
And I'm NOT going to drop it again!
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Canuck
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Please remind me about the case material. Gold filled, karat gold, what karat? You dropped it?
 
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Well I finally got this one back from the watch doctor it runs beautifully and keeps great time
And I'm NOT going to drop it again!
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Great news that it survived! The dial looks completely untroubled by the fall. Enjoy it 👍
 
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Please remind me about the case material. Gold filled, karat gold, what karat? You dropped it?
The case is gold filled, Dennison Star.
I dropped it the first day back from the watch doctors it slipped outta my hand dropping onto bastard ceramic tiles!. The impact buggered the balance shaft! So it went back again, with me begging the watch doctor's forgiveness..
 
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I dropped an E Howard N-sized hunter cased pocket watch years ago. The watch was made in 1884. The staff broke, and I was unable to track down a replacement. So I made one! Handy thing to be able to do when the occasion demands it. Notice the stag image over the mainspring barrel, on the top bridge. E Howard produced three grades of movement. Hound, (unadjusted), Horse (adjusted to heat, cold, isonchronism, no positions), and Stag (adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism, and 6 positions).

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Teddy Roosevelt's Waltham, which was stolen in 1987 has been recovered by the FBI and returned to Sagamore Hill.

https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/theod...-after-theft-recovery-by-federal-agencies.htm

Per the above story the watch was given to him in 1896 by his sister and brother in law, and was the watch he carried in Cuba, as President, and into Panama.

According to our friends at the Pocketwatch database it is a 17J, Riverside grade, model 1888.

https://pocketwatchdatabase.com/search/result/waltham/6555209
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DaveK
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Waltesefalcon Waltesefalcon
Teddy Roosevelt's Waltham, which was stolen in 1987 has been recovered by the FBI and returned to Sagamore Hill.

https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/theod...-after-theft-recovery-by-federal-agencies.htm

Per the above story the watch was given to him in 1896 by his sister and brother in law, and was the watch he carried in Cuba, as President, and into Panama.

According to our friends at the Pocketwatch database it is a 17J, Riverside grade, model 1888.

https://pocketwatchdatabase.com/search/result/waltham/6555209
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Thanks for sharing this. How could they not tell us who took it and how they got it back ?
 
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A slight change today, a couple of movement shots.

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Canuck
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Two advantages we have in this forum featuring pocket watches is the beauty of these 100 year old movements, and the ease of showing them on line. Generally not so with wrist watches! Read on.

In this order:

E. Howard N size (18-size).
Waltham 1883 model, Canadian Pacific Railway.
Brandt (Omega) 19-jewel, grade CCR.
Illinois model 2 transitional key wind/stem wind grade 4 ‘Railroader.
Left, Hamilton grade 950B, 23-jewels. Right, ‘1852 model Waltham key wind/set, 17-jewels, coin silver case.
Waltham Vanguard grade 1623, 23 jewels, circa mid 1950s.
Waltham Vanguard, 23-jewels, diamond endstone on balance wheel, much fancier than the later Vanguard.
Hamilton grade 944, 19-jewels, jewelled motor barrel. Circa mid 1920s, a low production model
Hamilton grade 992B, 21-jewels, one of over half a million made, circa early 1940s. Probably the most popular railroad model.


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I’ve seen many Regina brand watches over my decades of collecting, but never one as handsome as the one posted by @TexOmega . I have a Regina that came to me from Mrs. C’s family, but it pales by comparison with this one. I’ve never shown mine in this forum, a that is not likely to change.
 
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At 21j, and with that snail regulator(only sold with their top 23j PW) it is just a tick below Omega's finest graded movement.

My watchmaker serviced and I had him regulate it more finely than I would normally. Just too special.

Thanks for the kind words
 
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Canuck Canuck
Two advantages we have in this forum featuring pocket watches is the beauty of these 100 year old movements, and the ease of showing them on line. Generally not so with wrist watches! Read on.

In this order:

E. Howard N size (18-size).
Waltham 1883 model, Canadian Pacific Railway.
Brandt (Omega) 19-jewel, grade CCR.
Illinois model 2 transitional key wind/stem wind grade 4 ‘Railroader.
Left, Hamilton grade 950B, 23-jewels. Right, ‘1852 model Waltham key wind/set, 17-jewels, coin silver case.
Waltham Vanguard grade 1623, 23 jewels, circa mid 1950s.
Waltham Vanguard, 23-jewels, diamond endstone on balance wheel, much fancier than the later Vanguard.
Hamilton grade 944, 19-jewels, jewelled motor barrel. Circa mid 1920s, a low production model
Hamilton grade 992B, 21-jewels, one of over half a million made, circa early 1940s. Probably the most popular railroad model.


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Agreed. Pocket watch movements have a lot more room for expression.

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I had an online review of my lanyards today ::psy:: Many of you will be able to say “I knew Dave before he became an international sensation” 😁

 
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I had an online review of my lanyards today ::psy:: Many of you will be able to say “I knew Dave before he became an international sensation” 😁


You'll see one of DaveK's excellent Lanyards on my watch in one of my most reacent posts on this thread
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