UG Pocket Watch Thread

Mark020 · Jul 11, 2023

Someone better be quick: https://www.ebay.nl/itm/305019515940

Ref 21710

Ref 21715

Woops · Jul 17, 2023

Mark020
Really no more sleepers in 2023. This very interesting pocket chrono…

I’m delighted to say that this basket case piece found its way to me via all sorts of shenanigans in the UG backwaters.

It has taken a long while to get her running when others before me had given up. The strange things we do for these little machines….

Mark020 · Jul 17, 2023

Wow! Beautiful piece! What was the issue with servicing it?

Carlton-Browne · Jul 17, 2023

Wonderful.

CaptainWinsor · Jul 17, 2023

Insane dial!!!

bgrisso · Jul 17, 2023

Outstanding!!!

mikeo1 · Sep 1, 2023

clear back cal 285--fits perfectly I believe it is as originally mounted (check screws)
maybe a salesman sample?
runs and functions crisply

bgrisso · Sep 1, 2023

mikeo1
clear back cal 285--fits perfectly I believe it is as originally mounted (check screws)
maybe a salesman sample?
runs and functions crisply

That’s cool !
No idea on originality, but the hands all look wrong?

mikeo1 · Sep 1, 2023

I've thought about that as well (wrong hands) but they do very convincingly match both the dial luminous wrt color and patina.

martinc · Sep 2, 2023

bgrisso
That’s cool !
No idea on originality, but the hands all look wrong?

Yes, hands look wrong. The hour and minute could theoretically be “original”, but they do not match. So only one of them “could” be original…
Subdial and chrono hands are not original.

To me the watch seems more like being a normal wristwatch with lugs removed and caseback replaced by plexi… But who knows… an interesting example.