ILLINOIS A. Lincoln 21 Jewel Pocket Watch Model 5 circa 1910 16 Size Lever Set

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I've been selling for years on ebay and Canadian Watch Collector and MWR under the name What Does Your Watch Say? Please PM for links to my ebay feedbacks and posts on CWC. I'm located in Cambridge, ON Canada. I can take PayPal payments, EMT within Canada and face to face cash transactions are ok too as long as you're willing to drive to the Cambridge, KW area. I pay for the tracked shipping within North America mailed through Canada Post, I don't use FedEx or UPS and International shipping is $25 CAD ($19 USD). If you have any questions please feel free to PM me 👍 Here are my positive feed backs as well:

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Illinois A. Lincoln 16 size pocket watch
Circa 1910
Stem wind
Lever set
21 jewel hand wind movement
Serial number 2261851
Grade A. Lincoln
Model 5
16 size
White porcelain dial
Black Arabic hours numbers
Red Arabic minute numbers
Fahy's Montauk gold filled case
All original: Case, crown, dial, hands and movement
Replacement second hand
Newer acrylic crystal
Case back and bezel are a little tight to screw down
Movement winds sets and runs plus (+) 5 seconds dial up over 24 hours

$235 CAD ($185 USD) shipped OBO

 
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Nice watch. According to the “blue book” by Meggers and Ehrhardt, this one was produced in 1910. Again, according to the blue book, there were 31,860 of the 5th model A. Lincoln produced between 1908 and 1924. Lincoln practiced law with John Stuart, Illinois’ first president. He was a close personal friend of John and a Jacob Bunn of the watch company. Lincoln was the only American president to have a watch grade named after him.

One little detail you missed in your description is the gold train wheels.
 
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And is that a telegraph machine engraved on the back? That is flat out cool!
 
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And is that a telegraph machine engraved on the back? That is flat out cool!
was trying to figure out what that was...
 
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And is that a telegraph machine engraved on the back? That is flat out cool!

After 18 months I finally find out what the engraving is. Thank you DaveK 👍
 
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One little detail you missed in your description is the gold train wheels.

Thank you for posting this history of the Lincoln line within the Illinois company Canuck. Very much appreciate the info.

President McKinley was also a line of watches made by Hampden:

https://mb.nawcc.org/wiki/Hampden-Watch-Co

They're really pretty movements but sadly not as popular because Hampden isn't as widely collected these days.

I didn't mention the gold gear train because last time I listed a pocket watch with gold gears on another forum I received several PMs asking what the scrap value of the wheels was. I know these guys weren't collectors, but it was frustrating.

I'm happy to see that's there's some excitement in this watch. I held off posting it because I didn't know if pocket watches were of any interest here. Glad to see I was wrong.
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SOLD here on Omega Forums. Thank you OF for hosting and thank you my buyer and the community for looking 👍
 
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That was quick! Too bad they don’t all move like that one did.