i inherited my grandfather’s pocket watch and would like to know more about it. He died in the 1950s and I got it soon after. It has a number stamped inside the case = 723968. He did tell a story about having a bet on the number of jewels inside and the losers having to ‘eat his hat’. Other than that I can’t see any other information. It still works perfectly well with a comforting tick. Roman numerals on the main dial but regular numbers on the smaller dial. I believe it went to the Boer War with my grandfather- James (Melbourne)

 

Looks like a nice original Omega cased in a Dennison "Star" grade case.

Dennison was at the time (about 1900), a case maker in the UK.

Dennison cases of that era came in three grades, Sun, Moon and Star. Star was the economy grade where only the outside of the case had a layer of 9ct gold, the remainder being gold plated.

The Omega movement was probably imported into the UK and cased by a watchmaker using a Dennison case as per normal practice at the time.

For more detective work we need to know the movement serial number and a shot of the movement and the diameter of the movement in millimetres.

If you're in Melbourne I could check it out for you, no strings attached.

Cheers

Jim