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A watch less worn today, a little unusual for Roamer with gold printed Roman numerals, markers, logo and brown chocolate dial. In fact I've never seen another like it, very unusual for an early 44 jewel Stingray but Roamer did like to experiment a lot with dials and colour combinations, this one is unusual indeed.

A nice touch is that the gold print is an exact match to the case gold.
Probably I need to change to a different strap colour and texture to highlight and integrate the look.

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An uncommonly seen marking on an Illinois pocket watch, yet not really worth a premium. An electric trolley or interurban watch. Not quite railroad grade, yet ticking along nicely and keeping accurate time. Perfect for my birthday outing choice for me with the Mrs. noelekal are our youngest son’s wife at a local restaurant which originally housed the Texas Electric Railway interurban generator substation for the line between Fort Worth, Texas and Waco, Texas.

The green leather DaveK Mystery Braid lanyard complements the Hawaiian shirt perfectly.

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Ihttps://pocketwatchdatabase.com/search/result/illinois/4664473

Likely non magnetic. Hard to tell with the watch running, but the balance wheel might be mono-metallic with an alloy hairspring. By the time this one entered the market, non-magnetic watches were an advantage on modern trains. Pretty movement, useful on urban or interurban trains.
 
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Not actually wearing this one today. But it has been in constant use as a bench chronometer since I serviced it 13 days ago. Keystone Howard series 5, 19-jewels, circa 1910. A brand that doesn’t get a lot of attention hereabouts. i have two of these, and I quite like them. For a short time after Keystone bought the rights to manufacture pocket watches after they agreed to terms with E Howard & Co., Keystone used movements made for them by Waltham. I don’t have one of those, nor have I ever seen one.