Help id’ing watch service marks?

Garra661 · Jul 17, 2023

As the title says. If anyone is familiar with what watchmakers/repair shops mean when they write things.

as you can tell, it mentions something about the crown? Also I see multiple what looks like.. scratch markings? But they are #s and letters.

ref# 168.0057

Davidt · Jul 17, 2023

I was under the impression watchmakers often use/used their own markings and trying to decipher them years later was likely impossible

Garra661 · Jul 17, 2023

Davidt
I was under the impression watchmakers often use/used their own markings and trying to decipher them years later was likely impossible

Yeh I was hoping it was something obvious I just didn’t know.

Donn Chambers · Jul 17, 2023

Davidt
I was under the impression watchmakers often use/used their own markings and trying to decipher them years later was likely impossible

This. As far as I know, each watchmaker had their own shorthand so they could tell if they had done the service before, when, and what was done. Impossible to interpret. Thank God this has all but disappeared except for a few really, really old watchmakers who refuse to give up on it. I hate having the case back all marked up, even if it is hidden on the interior.

Archer · Jul 17, 2023

In some places a national organization would assign watchmakers identification marks that they would scratch inside your case back, but as noted this is considered damaging a customer’s property now, so not done much anymore.

The marks could be anything from initials of the watchmaker, to a date, to an internal job number...

Help id’ing watch service marks?

Garra661

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