watchthis1988
Tenderfoot
- Apr 20, 2015
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- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
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Wait, in the little I know of pocket watches I thought that this was supposed to be a reliable mark for being solid gold? Not that it wasn't occasionally counterfeited. Was my one tidbit I thought I knew wrong?
What worries me about the assay mark is that there is no case makers name or mark with it. It would be here and not on the missing flip. That with an ebauch movement makes me think hinky but definitely check the case.Sounds like someone, has a little better then average horological knowledge. Sure wish I could stumble on to a 1000 dollar PP Chrono. Back in the early 90's I did come by a 1946 AP (time only) 2 tone rectangle rose & yellow 18K case mono'd J.D. The story from the old gal who consigned it was, it was given to her by Jack Dempsey long ago when she was one of the many pretty girls who went on dates with the guy. I contacted AP and they could only tell me the watch was sold to a Chicago jeweler in 48' and that jeweler at that time had been out of business around the last 40 years.. I could never come up with the prof I was hoping to get on that AP. Later on I took it in for a new main spring at the watch repair guy I used. I got a call from the watch guy a week or so later and I think my watch guy contacted this collector when I brought it in, because, I think my watch guy and this collector had a deal going to notify this collector when something interesting came in. I thought this, because the watch guy called first, to tell me, the first main spring installed was very thin and failed from the get and it may be a problem to find one good enough to hold. Then a couple days later the watch guy, called again to tell me this collector, just happened to see it on the bench and wanted to make me an offer on it. I did go ahead and made a deal with this collector and I did make a little over a grand on it.
As for this PW I've always referred to these as "Swiss Generics", so do what trdking says and you should find out more info on it. It is a nice pocket watch IMO, but not something a serious collector will pay big bucks for.
In low end pocket watches I never gave it much thought in how many were made until one day redundant parts started arriving from the Westclox Company that had closed down almost 20 prior to receiving items. I was amazed at the shear volume that I received over the months of brass parts, 45 gallon barrels full of any part that was made for a pocket watch, from the main hunter cases to the hairsprings. 10 yrs later we were still finding pieces laying around the warehouse.
Westclox in Canada
Thats a ton of Parts! Too bad it wasn't a rolex factory or? You could have made millions on a haul like that