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Calling all Pocket Watch Buffs
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Serial Number 2537156 was reported as accurate.
I noticed this within your link Canuck. Previous owner recorded this watch I just got.
You clearly combed through that link more carefully than I did! It took me about 5 minutes to find that listing. So, two weeks ago it was owned by someone else. I usually check the data base for occurrences such as this, but this is a first in my experience. You said you acquired it a few weeks ago, (Nov. 3?). But the previous owner listed it in late October ‘24!
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DaveK
··Yoda of YodelersAnother pocket watch came home to roost a few weeks back. I just got around to photographing it. Had to retake the obverse side due to a photographic error. It's late in the afternoon and the sky is now gearing up here for a forecast of an overnight rainstorm.
This Hamilton 974 Special features a dial that also refers to the interurban. I've not yet researched what it is about a 974 Special movement that makes it special over a regular 974 movement as is featured in the other Hamilton Electric Railway pocket watch.
I got on a little kick about the history of old Interurban that once ran through our town so started gathering in electric railway/interurban/trolley pocket watches. Had them all out this afternoon for an airing.
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ghce
·Bought yet another sterling silver Chronograph at auction to night, identicle to the one I bought a month ago except it has Arabic numerals rather than Roman. Bought very very cheap, apparently working though missing the Chrono seconds hand.
Seller pics
Seller pics
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TexOmega
·My Hamilton grade 943 was finished in December 1902 and sold to Chicago Watch Inspector JW Forsinger in 1903.
2399 produced, few known to exist. Hamilton’s 18s jewel for the era. Highly finished, closely aligned tolerances and RR grade/approved for the time. They were sold as movt/dial/hands so the buyer could choose their case. I would bet it would have been 14kt gold one. This gf case was a subsequent choice as a second case screw mark is seen.
In the mid 1910’s, Hamilton used unsold stock with additional finishing as the grade 947, the Hunter cased version of the 946, the Top 18s Hamilton of that era.
2399 produced, few known to exist. Hamilton’s 18s jewel for the era. Highly finished, closely aligned tolerances and RR grade/approved for the time. They were sold as movt/dial/hands so the buyer could choose their case. I would bet it would have been 14kt gold one. This gf case was a subsequent choice as a second case screw mark is seen.
In the mid 1910’s, Hamilton used unsold stock with additional finishing as the grade 947, the Hunter cased version of the 946, the Top 18s Hamilton of that era.
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·It appears to me that in upjewelling the 21-jewel 943 to convert it to 23-jewel grade 947, the difference in how the 947 was jewelled, appears to be the conversion to a jewelled motor barrel.
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You clearly combed through that link more carefully than I did! It took me about 5 minutes to find that listing. So, two weeks ago it was owned by someone else. I usually check the data base for occurrences such as this, but this is a first in my experience. You said you acquired it a few weeks ago, (Nov. 3?). But the previous owner listed it in late October ‘24!
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·I pulled the trigger on the Ebay auction on October 26th (would have been my grandmother's 126th birthday) and fetched the watch at my local post office on October 30th.
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·How about some old European stuff? Henry Jones, London, about 1680-1685. Recently won in an auction (photos by Dr. Crott auctions). It was quite a battle.
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·The outer case…..vitreous enamel? Tortoise shell? Niello? My guess is vitreous enamel. Made during an era when watchmakers actually made watches. Cudos to Henry Jones, and to @Bernhard J for preserving it and bringing it to us.
Men’s fashions from this era often didn’t have pockets, according to Britten’s book. Watches such as the subject watch were finally down-sized enough that watch pockets became fashionable. Although, the subject watch would have been a wealthy man’s accessory.
Men’s fashions from this era often didn’t have pockets, according to Britten’s book. Watches such as the subject watch were finally down-sized enough that watch pockets became fashionable. Although, the subject watch would have been a wealthy man’s accessory.
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··Home For Wayward WatchesWow Bernhard!
That one fires the imagination! Charles II was on the throne until 1685. Much was going on in the last 15 years of that century.
That one fires the imagination! Charles II was on the throne until 1685. Much was going on in the last 15 years of that century.
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·Wow Bernhard!
That one fires the imagination! Charles II was on the throne until 1685. Much was going on in the last 15 years of that century.
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I can see why he needed a pocket, with all that hair, cloaks, bejeweled baubles and frilly shit going on......you'd never find the damned thing if it was hanging around the neck
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Canuck
·Another gem from the Brittens book. The fellow who likely deserves the title of the first watch collector was a French nobleman by the name of Philemon Robertet. He was treasurer to three French kings during the 16th century. When he died, he left his collection of a dozen or so watches (likely all pocket watch sizes, some with repeat mechanisms) to his wife. Rumor has it she spent the rest of her life winding up the estate!😀
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Fallout Boy
·Hi, ´d like to ask: would you, can anyone give me a price range in $$ or €€ for this seikosha type 93.
please as a buyer.... Any concerns? Is this watch listed in Knirim s book? Merci!
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Waltesefalcon
·It is starting to get a touch chilly here, we finally had our first frost last week, so, I have broken out the vest. To usher in the winter in style I elected to wear my circa 1917 Hamilton 946, pictured here with my 10k anchor chain and 1880 $5 gold piece.
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Lépine
·Hi, ´d like to ask: would you, can anyone give me a price range in $$ or €€ for this seikosha type 93.please as a buyer.... Any concerns? Is this watch listed in Knirim s book? Merci!
I paid $675 USD for mine and it is completely original including the silk rope.
The one you are showing is obviously changed from the original case. Mine is marked SKS and is Nickel with no strap lugs. They never wore the Type 93 on their wrists.
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·Thanks, was the watch probably worn on the thigh???
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·Thanks, was the watch probably worn on the thigh???
No, not possible to wear a watch on the leg in a Japanese fighter and see the time. You would be shot down or catch it on the interior of the plane. The fighter crafts needed you to move your legs to operate the rudder controls. With high G-force, the pilots would typically get slammed into the sides of the aircraft. It doesn't make sense that they would tie things to their legs and risk it getting tangled.
Reconnaissance aircraft were different, they typically tried to evade getting shot down and didn't engage in combat, for these aircrafts, pilots wore maps or notebooks on the legs because there were no desks to mark observations. And there was a pilot and separate observer/photographer.
I think the B-Uhrens started that speculation about watches on the thigh. I would like to see photographic evidence that anyone ever did that.
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