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What hooks do you use to display pocket watches?
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michael22
·OMG yes, that, that is the solution. It will look really good and will be perfectly functional. Thank you @michael22 ! There is a fabric store not too far away that sells pieces of scrap leather.
Thank you everyone, gotta love OF 👍
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JimInOz
··Melbourne AustraliaAnother option is to use an O-ring. This one is a 2.5mm x 16mm OD x 11mm ID.
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JimInOz
··Melbourne AustraliaIs this at your house our a museum?
It's at a fair or a show. Doug keeps them securely in a safe when not on display outside his house.
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Fritz
·My solution was to sell the 12 size watches and buy more railroad watches.
not much help for those who like a nice dress watch but it was a good excuse to go get an 18 size Bunn Special!!!
not much help for those who like a nice dress watch but it was a good excuse to go get an 18 size Bunn Special!!!
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Canuck
·Is this at your house our a museum?
@JimInOz is correct. That is part of a display that two of us do at an annual hobby model train show each year. All 88 pocket watches running and on time. The wrist watches are mostly Accutron Railroaders, and Hamilton, Bulova, and Rodania quartz and electro-mechanical railroaders. This is one of the largest shows of its type in this hemisphere, and it is a two day show. No comment re: where these watches are sequestered for 363 days out of the year, but they are secure!
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wagudc
·@JimInOz is correct. That is part of a display that two of us do at an annual hobby model train show each year. All 88 pocket watches running and on time. The wrist watches are mostly Accutron Railroaders, and Hamilton, Bulova, and Rodania quartz and electro-mechanical railroaders. This is one of the largest shows of its type in this hemisphere, and it is a two day show. No comment re: where these watches are sequestered for 363 days out of the year, but they are secure!
I think I saw reference to this display in the thread on hummers. That would be a sight to see.
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Canuck
·I think I saw reference to this display in the thread on hummers. That would be a sight to see.
The pictures I showed above were from our 2018 exhibit. We showed only a few wrist watches, that year. In our 2019 exhibit, we showed 36 wrist watches in a separate cabinet. There was one Hamilton 505 Electric Railroader, one Accutron Quartz (tuning fork model), one Rodania 955 quartz railroader, about one dozen Accutron 214 and 218 Railroaders, one Bulova Computron (LED digital), the rest of the display was made up of Accutron 214 and 218 (non-railroad) models for a total of about 36 watches. All running except the Hamilton 505. in a quiet room with all those Accutrons running, even with my hearing 🙁, I could hear them running from across the room. The picture included here was from our 2019 exhibit, in April.
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Canuck
·Which ones in this nice collection are you particularly found? (with close-ups pictures of course!)
Oh boy! The exhibit comprised 88 pocket watches, all but about 6 of which were railroad watches. And you ask for pictures of my favourites? Too big a job! But I will show pictures of two I have a soft spot in my head for. The Waltham is a 21-jewel Crescent Street that served in the bib pocket of a CPR employee who started as an engine wiper in 1917, graduated to fireman in 1918, and retired circa 1962 as a locomotive engineer. The watch came to me with archival material, and a detailed printout of the 33 repairs it had over those years. The other two pictures are of one of my two Brandt (Omega) grade CCR watches, 19-jewel (railroad grade in Canada). The one I didn’t show as I don’t had a picture to hand, is a private label Brandt CCR for the jeweller A. Logan who was in Greenwood, British Columbia. Greenwood is in the Okanogan area, east of Osoyoos, and is about 7 miles north of the Idaho border. This one was acquired as a basket case that took me five years to build up.
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Waltesefalcon
·Canuck, your collection makes my six RR watches look like small potatoes.
As to the OP's question, I make leather cords to carry my watches on and the only one I use a chain with, I use a small piece of leather a'la Micheal22's solution between the chain and the bow.
As to the OP's question, I make leather cords to carry my watches on and the only one I use a chain with, I use a small piece of leather a'la Micheal22's solution between the chain and the bow.
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DaveK
·I guess that back in the day you could just go to Bows-R-Us and get a worn out bow replaced easy peasy. The leather between the chain and bow makes a lot of sense. I haven't seen that on any of the youtube videos I've watched. Many thanks.
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Canuck
·I guess that back in the day you could just go to Bows-R-Us and get a worn out bow replaced easy peasy. The leather between the chain and bow makes a lot of sense. I haven't seen that on any of the youtube videos I've watched. Many thanks.
if you go to Google and type in “MIRACLE BRAID”,you’ll se a procedure for making a braid which requires no open end, therefore, no glue or stitching. I think a perfect watch chain could be made using that process that likewise, could be accomplished with no stitching, glue, fasteners. I am tempted to try to make something like that.
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JimInOz
··Melbourne Australiaif you go to Google and type in “MIRACLE BRAID”,you’ll se a procedure for making a braid which requires no open end, therefore, no glue or stitching. I think a perfect watch chain could be made using that process that likewise, could be accomplished with no stitching, glue, fasteners. I am tempted to try to make something like that.
Mystery Braid Doug, see here for a video describing the technique.
https://www.tandyleather.com/en/mystery-braid.html
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Canuck
·Mystery braid. You’re right. Anyway, I’m gonna try that for a pocket watch chain.
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Canuck
·I used to buy leather watch chains from S Larose who were in Greensboro, North Carolina. But they have folded. The ones they supplied had a large loop at one end, and a small loop on the other, with a braided section in the middle. Basically, three parts, held together with staples! Not very good.
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DaveK
·This is the style I make for mine.
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