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[Ed-NH]

My two cents....

Here are all my beautiful watch finds

 

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[duggap]

Well, let me tell you my pocket watch story. My hunting buddy, Charlie Harris, and myself were water hunting looking for a ford crossing the confederates used after the battle of Missionary Ridge. Water hunting, if you haven't tried it, is a two man job. I ran the machine and Charlie did the retrieval. I sent Charlie down for a good target and he came up with a pocket watch. I told him to go back down as there was still a good target in the hole. He came up this time with two pocket watches. We stayed there for about three more hours and retrieved a total of 76 pocket watches. Now that was just too much of a mystery to let it stand. We got a book on pocket watches to see what we had. It was strange that out of 76 watches, none were of silver or gold, they were all brass. We ran them thru electrolysis and got the backs open. The watches were knock off, or what was called dollar watches and dated back to about 1900. What they were doing in the water is anyone's guess but dirty work must have surely been afoot. Maybe I can get Charlie to post a pic of the watches as they are all in one large display case. We never did get a civil war artifact that day. Oh well,.......

 

[BuckleBoy]

Well, let me tell you my pocket watch story. My hunting buddy, Charlie Harris, and myself were water hunting looking for a ford crossing the confederates used after the battle of Missionary Ridge. Water hunting, if you haven't tried it, is a two man job. I ran the machine and Charlie did the retrieval. I sent Charlie down for a good target and he came up with a pocket watch. I told him to go back down as there was still a good target in the hole. He came up this time with two pocket watches. We stayed there for about three more hours and retrieved a total of 76 pocket watches. Now that was just too much of a mystery to let it stand. We got a book on pocket watches to see what we had. It was strange that out of 76 watches, none were of silver or gold, they were all brass. We ran them thru electrolysis and got the backs open. The watches were knock off, or what was called dollar watches and dated back to about 1900. What they were doing in the water is anyone's guess but dirty work must have surely been afoot. Maybe I can get Charlie to post a pic of the watches as they are all in one large display case. We never did get a civil war artifact that day. Oh well,.......

That is INCREDIBLE! I'd love to see a photo of all of 'em--and I'm sure folks on here would love to see them as well. Wowzers!


-Buckleboy

 

[B|lker]

Nice finds all, bagged this one today 5-4-08

info i`ve also dug, up leads me to think it was made in the 30`s by e Ingraham company in bristol conn.

Any one seen on like it?

 

[Detectingfreak]

All of the clocks and watches are amazing! Makes me smile to see so many recovered.

 

[Ohio Jerry]

Thanks to Montana Jim's pics I've positively identified a small watch piece i dug last weekend.It's the tiny gear like piece in the middle. It was down about 5 inches but gave off a nice signal on my DFX. Before i dug it I called my brother over to swing his Explorer SE over it to see what he thought and he said whatever it was it was small...time to dig The larger gear plate on the right came from the same general area as did the solid brass disc on the left. It is stamped FRANCE in the middle and not sure if it's part of a watch but is the exact size diameter as the gear plate so i thought they might go together...
Jerry

 

[Silver Fox]

At first I was disappointed because I couldn't contribute since I've gotten rid of all of the watches I've found including a ladies Movado. But then I remembered my Seiko and here it is. I found it with a leather band but I replaced it with my Speidel band which I've had since the '60s. Lately, though, the band has been failing so I just got myself a new watch. This Seiko has an elegant look. I found it in Central Park just under the vegetation.

Oh, yeah, I also found this high quality Rolex Submariner replica with a great transparent back. It's worth many hundreds bucks.

Silver Fox

 

[finders.keepers]

cool finds everyone.

Here are a couple of mine

Cheers

 

[Marc(NB)]

heres mine

I did throw away plenty of bits and pieces over the years.Also not in the pic is a modern elcheapo girls watch..

 

[Spiney Norma]

Terrible picture....but an even worse pocket watch found in my sisters yard!

 

[BuckleBoy]

Those are some EXCELLENT watches! Both awesome, old pocket watches as well as valuable new ones. Well done!


Now keep those watches coming.




-Buckles

 

[Mike Moutray]

This was a fun bunch of gold watch cases to find. They were in a large group in a drained lake at the large city park here.... I surmised that they had been tossed by a burglar to avoid the cops or something like that.



There are several nice pocket watch cases, lids, and parts of other watches. They were all stripped of their works leaving only the gold behind.

They were in an area about 10' X 20' 20 feet from the shore in what was 3 feet of water before the lake was drained. The mud was very soupy, most of these were 10-12" deep in the muck. The larger cases made faint but solid signals for my Explorer, and the smaller ones were found after I scraped the top layer of muck off and hunted through countless globs of mud as I was going. I looked like a pig in sh!t when I was done, but I was very happy.

Here is a pic of one at the bottom of a 12" deep hole:



They all looked dull and scuzzy like this before I cleaned the crap off them, but they cleaned up right pretty!



I've found 4 other gold pocket watches over the years in various places., so I have quite a nice collection of them. Thanks for looking and HH, Mike.

 

[allen]

nice bunch of finds....

 

[BuckleBoy]

Mike,

All I can say is WOW. I've found lots of plated ones, but never a solid gold case. That's more gold there than most folks will find in their lifetime. The watch case on the bottom is Huge!


Nice work, buddy. This one gets a Standing Ovation from me.



-Buckles

 

[N.J.THer]

Found this gold pocket watch case a few weeks back:

Also found my first watch fob a two weeks ago but I don't have a picture available at this time. It was a fob of the US great seal.

The watch and fob were both lots of fun to find. The watch is from a farm field the the fob was in a park.

Happy watch hunting.

NJ

 

[BuckleBoy]

rtde,

That is an IMPRESSIVE collection of watch pieces! And you get special Karma for returning the watch to its owner. It's great to see those square pieces of a clock plate. They're everywhere! I just dug one of those today at a house site--it was in pieces, and I dug about four bits of it out before I realized what it was.


NJ,

That is one Sweet gold case! There's been enough gold posted on this thread to officially make me drool all over my keyboard now.


Keep those photos coming!


-Buckleboy

 

[Chico Rico]

Hampden gold plated railroad watch produced in 1903. Attached is a silver 3 cent coin with no date. Found in a river with a bunch of other things in a ziplock bag. I looked into restoration but due to water damage, no one would touch it. And a citizen wrist watch.

 

[Chico Rico]

Sorry here's the Hampden watch, the above is an aluminum 1986 olympic pocket watch.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Chico,

So the three cent piece was attached to the watch as found? That is way cool!

 

[stormfighter]

It is not as nice as all the rest but it is my NJ donation to the cause.DAN