HELP NEEDED - Looking for any info on these four recent finds

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Been a long time since I've posted on the forum as life has kept me busy, but my father showed me these watches that he recently found while cleaning out his parents' house. There were some others but nothing that looked as nice or original as the four below. I took a number of pictures to try to give as much info as possible because that's really all I have to go on, so I apologize for the length of this post. I was unable to get any of the cases opened - two appear to have screw backs but using my little watch ball didn't work and I was afraid to apply to much pressure. Looking to learn as much as possible about each of these watches, and also get some sense of their potential financial value (if any) so your help is greatly appreciated. Feel free to chime in with info on all the watches, or just one or two - all help is great!

The watches are as follows:

1. A men's Waltham - ~31mm case
2. A women's Wittnauer - ~19mm case
3. A unique rectangular women's watch that I THINK says IWC on the case back - ~24mm x ~14mm case
4. A women's Omega on a stretch bracelet (which I assume is not original) - ~19mm case

And here are more detailed images of each:
1. The Waltham which has an engraving to my grandfather on that case back




2. The Wittnauer



3. The (maybe) IWC






4. The Omega


 
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The (possible) IWC is the star of the show. 18k white gold case.. it would be interesting and informative to see the movement.

The Waltham is nice enough, and I like the simple inscription on the case back.
 
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On the IWC (and yes, that is the IWC logo), I was able to pull this information from the Date Your IWC website.


Once you are able to get the serial number from the movement, you can update this information by entering both the case and movement numbers here:

http://www.moeb.ch/dyIWC/

Very nice one.
gatorcpa
 
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On the IWC (and yes, that is the IWC logo), I was able to pull this information from the Date Your IWC website.


Once you are able to get the serial number from the movement, you can update this information by entering both the case and movement numbers here:

http://www.moeb.ch/dyIWC/

Very nice one.
gatorcpa

Thanks @gatorcpa - I was able to get the case opened and pull the serial number from the movement. Found the below info:



I'll try to get some good pictures of the inside tomorrow but wondering if this additional info gives any better sense of what I have here, and what its potential value may be?

Thanks again!
 
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Now you have determined when the watch was made, late 1926 or early 1927. Values on watches like this are really based on the melt value of the gold plus a premium for the movement. IWC was a very fine watch back then (as now), but these small ladies watches are simply not collectible in today's market.

They do make nice gifts for the ladies in your life, if you can get them to wear them.
gatorcpa