Strange mark.. Help needed

0uss · Nov 19, 2019

Hello ladies and gents ,

I found this photo online of a small shovel looking stamp on a watch's caseback and reminded me of the same mark i found between the lugs of my ex gold plated movado datron, but it was to small and tricky to capture on camera.
Looks like a casemaker's stamp and i'm pretty curious who might be. If not, what could it possibly symbolize?

Cheers! 👍

DaveK · Nov 19, 2019

I don’t have your answer, but for this post and others, “gents and ladies”, or just “hi everyone” might be best.

Best wishes,

BlackTalon · Nov 19, 2019

Guessing a casemaker's mark as well, but I just spent some time skimming through mikrolisk.de and did not see it (I only looked through the 24 or so pages listed under * and ? since there do not appear to be any letter). Anything to help narrow down a search, such as the watch brand/ model, and rough year of manufacturer?

EDIT: went back to the site and searched for shovel, spade and shield. Got another 1000 or so marks to skim through, but none looked similar. My best guess is this is much newer than the marks cataloged in their database.

0uss · Nov 20, 2019

DaveK
I don’t have your answer, but for this post and others, “gents and ladies”, or just “hi everyone” might be best.

Best wishes,

thank you four your input. 😀 Post edited!

0uss · Nov 20, 2019

BlackTalon
Guessing a casemaker's mark as well, but I just spent some time skimming through mikrolisk.de and did not see it (I only looked through the 24 or so pages listed under * and ? since there do not appear to be any letter). Anything to help narrow down a search, such as the watch brand/ model, and rough year of manufacturer?

EDIT: went back to the site and searched for shovel, spade and shield. Got another 1000 or so marks to skim through, but none looked similar. My best guess is this is much newer than the marks cataloged in their database.

thank ypu for the tremendous effort @BlackTalon 😀 i did a fair share of extensive research but nothing popped up either. As you said the mark could be fairly recent compared to the others on mikrolisk.de, as my movado datron dates to the 1970s. The search is still on!

zoohannover · Nov 21, 2019

0uss
I found this photo online of a small shovel looking stamp on a watch's caseback

Any information regarding the watch with the mark on the case back? Brand, model, etc.?

I found something similar in a sale of a Tissot watch.

https://www.adverts.ie/vintage/1960...s-swiss-watch-20-microns-gold-plated/10080416

And here on a Omega reference 135.070

https://jackmond.com/products/omega-case-sku-cs105

Just guessing:
Since the mark shows a symbolisted spade and the german word for digging is "graben", the case maker could be Graber S.A.

Vitezi · Nov 21, 2019

0uss
Looks like a casemaker's stamp and i'm pretty curious who might be.

I seem to recall the spade/shield mark referenced the gold content (10 karats) in a gold-filled watch. But I can't find an authoritative source for that. 😒

0uss · Nov 21, 2019

zoohannover
Any information regarding the watch with the mark on the case back? Brand, model, etc.?

I found something similar in a sale of a Tissot watch.

https://www.adverts.ie/vintage/1960...s-swiss-watch-20-microns-gold-plated/10080416

And here on a Omega reference 135.070

https://jackmond.com/products/omega-case-sku-cs105

Just guessing:
Since the mark shows a symbolisted spade and the german word for digging is "graben", the case maker could be Graber S.A.

The photo of the caseback is from a listing on ebay. The zodiac hermetic is gold plated and dates to the 60s.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Zo...ated-Manual-Mens-Watch-17-Jewel-/113765184489

In this case, imho, two theories are possible:
- Omega, Tissot, Movado and zodiac shared the same case manufacturer back in the 60s and 70s.
- Or, The mark symbolizes gold content / gold plating process used by the said brands as it's only seen on gold filled watches and not seen on solid gold or stainless steel models which sounds more likely.
This is only a theory and it's missing a reliable source like @Vitezi said.

Strange mark.. Help needed

0uss

DaveK

BlackTalon

0uss

0uss

zoohannover

Vitezi

0uss

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