Excellent. I'd forgotten about Ballantine, the preferred beer of old men sitting on their stoops during the hot summers of my Baltimore childhood.
Lou From reading the October threads, I'm guessing you are hunting the Zenith unidentified bracelet. Did you find this thread when you were looking around? http://forums.watchuseek.com/f11/help-identifying-omega-vintage-859185.html Hope this helps. ".....Originally both parts (case & movement /Dial) started life together. This watch was purchased in Spain in 1963 as new by my father to be a present for his father (my grandfather). It is possible (can't get this info) that my father ordered a special watch, and the jeweller made a unique box & bracelet, ordering from Omega the movement. Related to the JMPL branded, I am thinking that probably could not be JMPL, but JP and ML. I think could mean the following: The J for Jewelry (in Spanish Joyeria), the P for Silverware (in Spanish Plateria), and maybe the ML could be the name of the jeweller. So it could be Jewelry & Silverware (horizontal) with the name of jeweller in vertical. It makes sense for me. I'll try to make a search to find Spanish jewellers from the 60's starting with M and L"
Oooh, good find. So perhaps a Spanish goldsmith's mark. But that Omega looks like it has a Swiss-type marking for gold content, although no hallmarks. Hmmm. FYI pitpro, the object of the exercise is to determine the gold content of the bracelet, not having been able to recognize the hallmarks. I was looking at the jeweler's mark in an attempt to figure out what country's assay office I should be searching.
International Assoc. of Assay offices - Spain http://www.theiaao.com/spain/ Hallmarking in Spain is a Legal Requirement but these laws only came into effect as recently as 1985 (src. International Association of Assay Offices).
and this: http://www.mirs.gov.si/fileadmin/um.gov.si/pageuploads/Dokpdf/SPK/EUzigi.pdf but neither are super helpful in this case.