Hamilton 956 Circa 1914

992 circa 1908

992 circa 1911

992 circa 1912

992E circa 1931

4992B USAF issue circa 1950

American Waltham model1888 Riverside circa 1894

 

Here are my three entries in the RR chronometers, Elgin B.W. Raymond, Illinois Bunn Special, and a Hamilton 992
please pardon the poor photos:

 

Well have you considered investing in a charming little 'one handed' model? I love the fact that it is such a 'shoddy piece of old toot'!

I've wasted far too much time 'messing about' with this pre-Moon Speedy 'bollocks'. This is THE OTHER WATCH MY DAD LEFT ME! It's my new 'daily beater' chaps, and one of it's more obvious charms is that I have absolutely no 'fakkin' idea what the time is!

 

There are einhand watches for sale these days. The principle being that the minute hand is not that important if you can read the position of the hour hand with accuracy. Most people don't think in minutes any way, they think in "Half Past" the hour or "a quarter till".

Each minute marker represents twelve minutes going by the hour hand positioning.

 

Hmmm? Depends on what you are timing @Professor. I've just hit 60 and have a lovely new, energetic, wife.
Minutes count these days 'Proff'!...

Minutes make the difference between being 'slightly fakked, in bed with a happy wife and being 'fatally fakked' ,in an ambulance with your widow!
I've even had to crank the old Speedy chrono hand into action just to be on the safe side!

 

If I paid good money for a pill to achieve liftoff it better last more than four hours.

 

My Howard collection from E.Howard from the civil war with a series III keywind to when keystone bought the brand in the early 1900's and it turned into Howard with out the E with lever set handwind railroad watches. I got another early E.Howard I did not get in the photo with a four digit movement serial number when I have time mite take some new photo's and post it later photobucket destroyed all my older pocket watch photo's.

 

I think I see a 19-jewel, series 5 (or 21-jewel series 10, or 23-jewel series O there), and possibly a 21-jewel series 11. Both Keystone Howards. The others are E. Howards. I like Howards. I have four Keystones, and one E Howard, as well. Two series 5s, one series 7, one series 11, and one E Howard series VII.

 

Your right 19 jewel series 5 and 21 jewel series 11 railroad chronometer. Was glad to get a E.Howard series III with original silver hunter case with the winding and time hole's on the case cover. The other two E.Howard's I have were recased due to idiot's melting the gold cases so you have more E.Howards movements out there than ones with cases and that makes the ones with original case more expensive.

 

I am fortunate. My E Howard series VII has the original gold filled hunter case, with case paper with matching S#, and it is virtually mint! The 15-jewel movement is the stag grade. E Howard movements generally don’t fit foreign 18-size cases, so re-cases are usually easy to spot. Mine was made circa 1885, according to my references.

 

This was my great grandfather's watch. They lived in Kentland, Indiana. Sorry for the focus on the dial - couldn't tell it was off till I looked at it closer.

 

The first omega in my family. My mother gave it to me last year. My grandfather bought this watch when he was living for a year in Paris in the 30's. He returned to Germany but had to leave the country because some guy did not like jews. He left everything he had but took his omega with him.

 

1914 Hamilton 940

 

Don't forget the cheapest of the cheap. An example of the "Dollar Watch" from February 1949. Everyone should have one.

And yes it still actually runs, albeit not very well.

 

In Canada, in 1946, these Westclox Dax and Pocket Ben “dollar watches” sold for $4.75. In 1910, there was a bounty of one cent per tail for gophers. My late father (born in 1900] caught 100 gophers at one cent per tail, and bought his first dollar watch.

 

Any one collect pocket watch fobs. Here are a few of mind some are for advertising and colleges and souvenir's and ones for politics.


How they were attached to the watch. When I did not have a lot of money and could not afford a watch I would see these at antique shows for 5-25 bucks the most I paid was 60 bucks for the buffalo bill wild west show one due to the rarity and I never seen one before this one. But these kept up my collecting when low on cash.

 

When I was in second grade and wanted to carry my great grandad's Illinois my dad went out and bought me one of these, not much changed about them from the 40s to the 80s.

 

Here is a Ulysse Nardine pocket watch pin set for the time sold in Montreal Canada from what it has engraved on inside case back a early one with four digit serial number and a cool fob chain. This was given to me by my ex boss when I retired.

 

@bubba48
Love that ebel. Is that designed to go through a lapel button hole and sit in the pocket square pocket?

 

Damn, another obscure and wonderful item to start collecting. Maybe another <$50 thread?
Nice collection!