Good Church watch for today...23j Elgin B.W. Raymond 494. 馃憤
I am betting God carries a pocket watch with a wind indicator, and I'm pretty sure it's a B.W. Raymond or a Riverside Maximus. I just noticed the mrs has that hair tamed for church, too.
This Hanhart 417 Bund I guess you can call this the real Steve McQueen watch since there's a photo of him wearing one. Never figured out how that vintage Rolex Explorer II got that nickname when he never owned one and no photographic evidence.
looks like a shot from one of his entries into the International Six Day Trials in Europe, a lot of people don't realize McQueen was one of America's better cross country motorcycle racers in his day.
Those magnetic shielded shock absorbent metal canisters are harder to come by I remember buying two for 25 bucks apiece then selling one at a NAWCC mart for 50 bucks so paid for the one I kept they seem to sell for more these days those metal cases.
A few out of the collection a Hamilton and Elgin Navigation watch. Some one asked what GCT stood for Greenwich Civil Time remember they used the stars the sun and the exact time from Greenwich and compass for Navigation no GPS in the 1940's.
Illinois railroad grade... 1895.... I just love that stuff!
I expect the postman to deliver this in the next few days... Illinois, keywind railroad grade. 1888
I鈥檝e been trying to figure that one out. Model 1 is key wind, key set, in a hunter case. Model 2 is transitional, stem/key wind in hunter case. Model 3 is the fifth pinion model in an open faced case. The subject watch isn鈥檛 any of those. Is this a model 2 (transitional) in a model 3 case? Can鈥檛 read the S#.
Wore my Dan Henry as I took the train in to the city to visit the Omega AD, to pick up my 2 month old Speedy, which had a habit of stopping when the seconds and hour hand would clash.
After, I swapped to the Moonwatch. Seems to be working now.