Ball Hamilton size 18 question??

[Kent]

Hi Ken:

Welcome to the NAWCC Pocket Watch Message Board!

The data base that Ed Ueberall and I maintain has a number of examples from the range 13,001 - 13,400. There's an assortment of Ball & Co., brotherhood and private label ORRS movements in that range.

These are usually not in a Ball-signed case, although they may have been sold as a cased watch (in unsigned cases) by Ball to the inspectors-dealers.

Oh, by the way, the case should be marked "IWCCo." for Illinois Watch Case. Co.

Good luck getting it fixed,

[crsides]

The notation in the Cooksey guide for the Railroad Watch CO should have referred to Watches in the 20000 - 21000 range (estimate). I don't believe there have been any RWCo marked watches in the 13-14000 range.


Charlie

[Don Dahlberg]

Serial numbers 13001-400 were sent to the Hamilton Finishing Department on 4/15/95 and 8/14/95. You can assume that the watches were completed and off to Ball by the end of the year.

If you are a member of NAWCC you can get the exact date the watch was finished and sold by writing reasearch@nawcc.org Just specify that it is a Hamilton watch and the serial number.

Don Dahlberg