Gold Pocket Watch

[N.J.THer]

I had hardly anytime to detect this weekend. I decided to try a farm that I have not been to for awhile and hunted for a half an hour yesterday with only one musketball. Today between running around I drove back to the farm with one goal...find silver from the 1800s. After ten minutes my wife calls and our daughter needed to be picked up. My wife was out shopping for shoes and since she never buys things for herself I told her to continue shopping and I would go. Of course I had to swing on the way back to the car. Glad I did...about 30 feet from the edge of the field I got a good signal at 2". I put my shovel to the side and pulled out my Lesche to flip out a small plug.

This little gold pocket watch was staring back at me. Yes, I thought about calling my wife back and asking her to pick up our daughter so I could continue to hunt but I did not. This was the last target I dug today. The only other find was another musketball when I first arrived. I never dig accomplish my goal of a silver from the 1800s....I guess I'll have to go back soon.

The watch has one front cover and two back covers with a stem at 12 o'clock. The inside back cover is marked 'Premier' with a serial number of 5001327. The outside back cover is marked 10K on the inside. The actual watch is missing. this is only the case. If anyone knows anything about this watch case I would appreciate the information. I also posted this on a Pocket Watch forum so I'll let you know if anything turns up elsewhere.

Enjoy the pictures.
NJ

Front: (2 Pics)

Back:

Case opened:

Inside back cover:

10K back cover mark:

 

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[DANGLANGLEY]

BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!.... Dang, that is a dandy for sure. I bet you did have a rough time leaving. Congrats!!!

DANGLANGLEY

 

[Argentium]

N J , awsome find !!! I'm trying to imagine myself looking in that hole and seeing that beauty, a dream

come true for sure . Keep up the good work . Gregory, Santa Fe.

 

[Evolution]

That is an absolutely gorgeous pocket watch. Incredible find.

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

No info on the watch, but it sure is a beauty!

Congrats!

 

[FisherMan_1266X]

freakin' suh-weeet, dude!

 

[Merf]

That is a Sweeeeeet find Congrats and WTG

 

[mptilkins]

great find!!

 

[silverfinder37]

I hope you hugged and thanked your wife for the phone call so you had to detect back to your vehicle.
Super nice find.
Best Regards, Ray

 

[Findone]

That is a great find.
Congratulations!
Leon

 

[JerV3]

Very nice pocket watch.

Yes, It would have been hard to leave on that note. But I bet you were eager to get it home and clean it up also. I'd check that site over well.

HH Jer

 

[allen]

definetily a beautiful find...

 

[Derek752]

Nj Congrats !!!

Your a GREAT dad and a lucky son of a gun !!!!

Definate banner material !
With the serial number shouldnt be hard to track it down and I'll bet the size adds to the value...dang thing sure is small !

WTG !!

Derek

 

[mumszie]

Fabulous Find! What a great item to add to your collection of finds. You have to definitely go back there and continue to search, who knows what else you will turn up! WTG

 

[karib2517]

that is one nice find!

 

[Green1]

holy smokes !!! find of a lifetime there !! if this don't make the banner... i'm out of here !!

 

[N.J.THer]

Thank you for all the kind replies. I really enjoyed finding the watch and learning as much as I can about it. I have not been able to track down the serial number yet but I believe it is 10K gold filled and a size 6 which I'm assuming was a woman's pocket watch from its size.

A member of one of the pocket watch forums turned me onto a really cool research site called 'Emergence of Advertising in America' where I was able to search for pocket watches in their search window and came up with this catalog.

http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/eaa.A0677/pg.6/

I did not find the same design but I thought it was pretty cool. If you have some thing you want to find a vintage ad or catalog for try this site that was setup by Duke University.

Thanks again everyone and I'll keep you posted if anything else turns up.

NJ

 

[cntrydncr1]

That is very beautiful. congratulations. This is what we all hope for!

 

[Evolution]

holy smokes !!! find of a lifetime there !! if this don't make the banner... i'm out of here !!

I concur! 100%

 

[Green1]

not all the time, but i've found everything in the banner except the trade dollar and the thing with the dude...this is a once in a lifetime find... and didn't make it up top.........