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·Not all pocket watches work best with a chain, right?
WRUCarrying? Pocket Watch Friday ☼
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·Omega pocketwatch
Year unknown, maybe someone of You know more...?!
Year unknown, maybe someone of You know more...?!
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··Yoda of YodelersP pongsterNot all pocket watches work best with a chain, right?
When people think about a pocket watch (let’s pretend for a moment that people actually do think about pocket watches 😉) they tend to picture it on a chain. It’s a classic image. Wearing a PW with a vest, or when wearing a fancy dress watch, a chain would seem to me to be the most commonly used hardware.
Leaving the fancy schmancy watches behind for a moment, when talking about the size 16+ watches, the railroaders and other working man’s watches, you’ll start to see the fobs and lanyards come out. I’ve read that half the railroaders wore theirs on a lanyard, you just don’t see it much in the imagery. Jeans have that 5th pocket, invented for pocket watches, that works wonderfully for lanyards and fobs.
Edit: On a small gent’s watch there isn’t a lot of space available between the crown and the bow, so the lanyard will need to be made of really thin leather.
And so this got me thinking...so I made a prototype today. @pongster did you have a gents watch that you wanted to wear? I need a test driver for this lanyard. It’s yours in exchange for some action shots and honest feedback 👍
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·Thanks!
I wore it and I wear it on a simple Silver chain!
But, sure, would like to know more!
Thanks for response!
I ll try it!
I wore it and I wear it on a simple Silver chain!
But, sure, would like to know more!
Thanks for response!
I ll try it!
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·Elgin Veritas 16s 23j
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My daily banger for many years.
Kienzle Antimagnetic.
Runs well, only about a minute a day slow!
Got it NOS in the end of the 1980s from a retired watchmaker who closed his shop due to age.
Somebody here know the approximate Production date of this model?
Thank You very much!
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·Pocket watches are classy looking pieces. I hope the Spas in my region start opening up soon.
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·P pongsterNot
A chain, chatelaine or strap on a pocketwatch was at first to safe the watch from falling down and getting the movement damaged. As a watch was then, by today measures an expensive luxury item.
The second thing is, as the pocketwatch sits in the pocket and can be seen by others only when You put it out, people did show their status not only with the precious watch but by the chain or chatelaine they wore.
I think not many working class people had back then a pocketwatch and if they had, they wore it only on special occasions, to not get it damaged!
To wear a pocketwatch you need a pocket.
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··Yoda of YodelersI think most of the pocket watches had kind chains to wear them!
A chain, chatelaine or strap on a pocketwatch was at first to safe the watch from falling down and getting the movement damaged. As a watch was then, by today measures an expensive luxury item.
The second thing is, as the pocketwatch sits in the pocket and can be seen by others only when You put it out, people did show their status not only with the precious watch but by the chain or chatelaine they wore.
I think not many factory workers had back then a pocketwatch and if they had, they wore it only on special occasions, to not get it damaged!
To wear a pocketwatch you need a pocket.
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Tako Yaki
·Pocket watches are classy looking pieces. I hope the Spas in my region start opening up soon.
Yeah, I love the traditional Japanese Onsen.
It’s not a bath it’s a celebration of culture!
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·Railroaders needed pocket watches. Good accurate ones, not necessarily fancy ones. I’m not sure what other blue collar professions needed them
Yes You’re right, the Railway workers who wore a pocketwatch wore not the blue collar workers!
They were the suit wearing ones, a privileged position to be a railroad worker.
A station master e.g.!
Back then, blue collar workers were mostly hired day by day ...
“Needed a watch” probably not, but a watch was a treasured item, given from father to son, even if it was a cheap used watch ...
Who needs today a watch? Or even a watch collection?
Most of us have smartphones...
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·I am wearing my 1920 Illinois Santa Fe Special, it's a grade 274 model 1. I'm wearing it on the new strap I got from @DaveK .
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