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WRUCarrying? Pocket Watch Friday ☼
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··Never Used A KodakIn my pocket all day. Used it once or twice to check the time. And it’s back in my pocket after taking the attached photo.
Great work on this one Canuck.
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Canuck
·Carried today. Two seconds fast in 36 hours!
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DaveK
·Making some pasta and noticed the pocket watch timing instructions ❤️ I believe this qualifies for pocket watch Friday 😅
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Canuck
·Still wearing my 18-size Waltham 1892 CPR pocket watch. I’m not showing in this post as I don’t want to wear out its welcome. In the 16 consecutive days I’ve worn it, it is presently 19 seconds fast without being reset. Although the rate hasn’t varied any more than 5 seconds in the last week! It is 107 years old and is performing as well today as it was the day it left the factory.
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Canuck
·Still wearing my 18-size Waltham 1892 CPR pocket watch. I’m not showing in this post as I don’t want to wear out its welcome. In the 16 consecutive days I’ve worn it, it is presently 19 seconds fast without being reset. Although the rate hasn’t varied any more than 5 seconds in the last week! It is 107 years old and is performing as well today as it was the day it left the factory.
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Canuck
·Preparing to carry a pocket watch tomorrow (Friday). I did a bunch of work on it today, and set it to my iPad. This is my Hamilton 992B with a melamine dial, and stainless steel case, likely from the late 1950s. Not very sexy but I rather like it. Worn on my @Duracuir1 leather lanyard.
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·In honour of our thread, Pocket Watch Friday, I went through my photos of my pocket watch collection in hopes of finding a special one that I haven’t worn in a while. I was faced with a difficult task as I love them all. But I finally settled on my Hamilton 952. This one is the 19-jewel version of the venerable 23-jewel grade 950. Over the years this grade was produced, there were three versions, each differing in only minor changes. This one is one of the first models. One of the first pocket watches I collected, waaay back in the mid 1980s. Among Hamilton 16-size models, this one was fairly low production. It is slowly being recognized as being quite collectible. Worn on my @DaveK mystery braid lanyard. The movement is railroad approved, but the case having hinged front and rear covers and cuvette, might have rendered it not for railroad use.
https://pocketwatchdatabase.com/search/result/hamilton/753325
From 1910. Sold the Joseph Meyer Bros, Seattle, Washington.
https://pocketwatchdatabase.com/search/result/hamilton/753325
From 1910. Sold the Joseph Meyer Bros, Seattle, Washington.
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Canuck
·Trying to keep the Pocket Watch Friday thread alive, I have warmed up my private label 1883 model Waltham (16-jewels, strangely) for Joseph Pequegnat (Peg-in-aw), Guelph, Ontario. Circa 1899. I have numerous 1883 model Walthams, but the Pequegnat and my CPR 1883 examples are my favourites. The Pequegnat family were ardent entrepreneurs, having emigrated from Switzerland to Canada, late in the 19th century. It appears as though they had settled in Berlin, Ontario (now Kitchener). They made bicycles, clocks, and owned numerous jewellery stores in Ontario. The clock museum in Deep River, Ontario is reputed to have an example of every clock Pequegnat ever produced. I have a Pequegnat Pantheon mantel clock. While their clocks were patterned after Connecticut clocks, their cases were very superior to orchard run Connecticut clock cases. Today is Thursday, but I’ll wear this one on Friday on my @DaveK mystery braid lanyard. Note the gold trimmed screws and regulator parts. The PWDB site calls this run of 1883 model Walthams as “special” which might imply that they produced numerous private label watches in this run.
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Waltesefalcon
·I'm sporting my circa 1914 Hamilton 950 this week.
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·For today's PW Friday, I'm wearing my old Hamilton 992 with the 1st pattern damaskeening.
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·With @Waltesefalcon ’s handsome Hamilton 992 having made an appearance as his choice to wear on Pocket Watch Friday, I decided to retrieve my Hamilton 992E from the vault for wear, today. The Hamilton grade 992 was a very successful 16-size railroad watch. Blued steel hairspring, bi-metallic, temperature compensating steel and brass balance wheel, but with the appearance of diesel-electric locomotives, the 992 was not anti-magnetic. Hamilton introduced the 992E (Elinvar) circa 1931. Elinvar (non-ferrous) hairspring, solid rim Elinvar balance wheel, magnetism problem solved.
https://pocketwatchdatabase.com/search/result/hamilton/2638444
My 992E was produced circa 1940, a year or two prior to introduction of the 992B which was a totally different watch.
The 992E looks just like a grade 992, but there are visual differences. The one image shows the word ELINVAR marked on the pallet cock. The Elinvar balance wheel is also a giveaway. Today, I’ll wear the 992E on my @DaveK mystery braid lanyard.
https://pocketwatchdatabase.com/search/result/hamilton/2638444
My 992E was produced circa 1940, a year or two prior to introduction of the 992B which was a totally different watch.
The 992E looks just like a grade 992, but there are visual differences. The one image shows the word ELINVAR marked on the pallet cock. The Elinvar balance wheel is also a giveaway. Today, I’ll wear the 992E on my @DaveK mystery braid lanyard.
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noelekal
··Home For Wayward WatchesFor today's PW Friday, I'm wearing my old Hamilton 992 with the 1st pattern damaskeening.
Waltesefalcon’s first pattern 992 caused me to put away the MuDu wristwatch from yesterday in favor of my Hamilton 940 with similar damaskeening pattern as his keen early 992. It’s on a green DaveK Mystery Braid lanyard.
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Waltesefalcon’s first pattern 992 caused me to put away the MuDu wristwatch from yesterday in favor of my Hamilton 940 with similar damaskeening pattern as his keen early 992. It’s on a green DaveK Mystery Braid lanyard.
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Canuck
·Call me a traitor to the cause. I didn’t wear a pocket watch today. 🤧To make up for my negligence, I’ll wear one tomorrow (Saturday).
Edit: So here it is, Saturday, and as advertised on Friday, my Friday pocket watch to be worn on Saturday will be my Keystone Howard series V which I have used as my bench chronometer for the last month.
Edit: So here it is, Saturday, and as advertised on Friday, my Friday pocket watch to be worn on Saturday will be my Keystone Howard series V which I have used as my bench chronometer for the last month.
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·Late to don a pocket watch. I spent the day restoring the usual mayhem that is involved in renovating a bathroom. So for Pocket Watch Friday, this one is it.
For this evening and tomorrow, my 1883-84 Stewart Dawson, Liverpool. Key wind, key set, no fusee, English lever escapement, sterling silver case. Hands not original. Came to me with no hands and the dial train fritzed by someone who had no idea what he was doing! Cannon pinions on most 19th century watches (and some early 20th century) are quite different to the modern cannon pinion. This one came to me with a sterling chain that weighs 66 grams. Dawson jewellery stores were found in the British Commonwealth, and they still are in business.
I was finally able to interpret the case maker’s mark in the case back. S. D.& co. (Stewart Dawson & co.). In his reference on Watch Case Makers of England, Philip Priestley lists this trade mark as being 1881. This reference lists Dawson at three addresses, one in Liverpool, and two in London. I believe he had branches in Australia and possible New Zealand as well. He is listed as a jeweller, but also a manufacturing jeweller and silversmith.
For this evening and tomorrow, my 1883-84 Stewart Dawson, Liverpool. Key wind, key set, no fusee, English lever escapement, sterling silver case. Hands not original. Came to me with no hands and the dial train fritzed by someone who had no idea what he was doing! Cannon pinions on most 19th century watches (and some early 20th century) are quite different to the modern cannon pinion. This one came to me with a sterling chain that weighs 66 grams. Dawson jewellery stores were found in the British Commonwealth, and they still are in business.
I was finally able to interpret the case maker’s mark in the case back. S. D.& co. (Stewart Dawson & co.). In his reference on Watch Case Makers of England, Philip Priestley lists this trade mark as being 1881. This reference lists Dawson at three addresses, one in Liverpool, and two in London. I believe he had branches in Australia and possible New Zealand as well. He is listed as a jeweller, but also a manufacturing jeweller and silversmith.
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·Late to don a pocket watch. I spent the day restoring the usual mayhem that is involved in renovating a bathroom. So for Pocket Watch Friday, this one is it.
For this evening and tomorrow, my 1883-84 Stewart Dawson, Liverpool. Key wind, key set, no fusee, English lever escapement, sterling silver case. Hands not original. Came to me with no hands and the dial train fritzed by someone who had no idea what he was doing! Cannon pinions on most 19th century watches (and some early 20th century) are quite different to the modern cannon pinion. This one came to me with a sterling chain that weighs 66 grams. Dawson jewellery stores were found in the British Commonwealth, and they still are in business.
I was finally able to interpret the case maker’s mark in the case back. S. D.& co. (Stewart Dawson & co.). In his reference on Watch Case Makers of England, Philip Priestley lists this trade mark as being 1881. This reference lists Dawson at three addresses, one in Liverpool, and two in London. I believe he had branches in Australia and possible New Zealand as well. He is listed as a jeweller, but also a manufacturing jeweller and silversmith.
https://www.stewartdawsons.co.nz/about-us
