Maybe my GF’s Omega Pocket Watch

wc.allen · Sep 29, 2025

Evening everyone.
Found this among my 93 year old mother’s possessions. Any help identifying/dating appreciated!

SOG53 · Sep 29, 2025

I estimate around 1890 from hand and dial style. With 12/24 hour markers perhaps railroad watch Others here will give more info
Paging @Canuck

SOG53 · Sep 29, 2025

Here are a couple of N American pocket watches from same era for comparison.

JimInOz · Sep 29, 2025

Possibly an early Omega for the American market due to the script on the dial.
The Omega movement was released about 1895 but the company name didn't become Omega until 1905.
Maybe @Canuck has seen one of these.

JimInOz · Sep 29, 2025

PS: If you are able to open the caseback and take photos of the movement and caseback we can deduce further.

I just noticed the pale blue box, it's quite possible it's the original box for that watch.

Canuck · Sep 30, 2025

Railroad grade? Not in North America to the best of my knowledge. Not railroad standard based on the usual requirements for a railroad standard watch. But it might have met standards for urban or inter-urban railroads, somewhere. I used to own a similar Omega, but it is long gone. Omega did produce railroad standard watches with the Brandt (as in Louis Brandt) name, but I don’t think they were accepted in the U S A.

gatorcpa · Sep 30, 2025

JimInOz
PS: If you are able to open the caseback and take photos of the movement and caseback we can deduce further.

For some of the early Omega movements, the only place the serial number appears is under the dial.

You'll probably need a watchmaker for that.
gatorcpa

wc.allen · Sep 30, 2025

Thanks for the replies….sorry for the delay in my response for additional information….my son now has the watch. Attached are additional pictures as requested. I don’t know if it makes any difference but the man that would have owned this watch either lived in New Brunswick or Nova Scotia. Hoping to determine which grandfather or great grandfather is most likely.

Canuck · Sep 30, 2025

The stamping A W C Co. inside the case back is for the American Watch Case Co., a Canadian company (strangely). The word “COIN” means the case is silver. Either 80% or 90% pure silver. The movement is a 7-jewel model, so definitely not a railroad standard watch.

JimInOz · Oct 1, 2025

As noted by @OMTOM in another thread, the Omega Watch Company (US) was located in Front St Brooklyn and the serial dates the movement to about 1895.

In that era, you often decided on a watch brand and then picked a case for it. It could be that a jeweller in Canada sourced Omega movements from Omega US and had the watch cased in Canada, to order for one of your ancestors.