Case Help

[StanJS]

Case experts,

I need some help with a watch case. I can't read the first letter. In Shugart there is a wheat sheaf mark for a gold case but it looks somewhat different from the picture below. Who made the watch case? Is this case gold? What carat?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/127/338708333_c474de394c_o.jpg

Thanks,
Stan

[Don Dahlberg]

If it were gold, would it not be marked as such?

It is marked American Watch Case Company

Don

[terry hall]

Is the mark B. W. C. Co?

If so this is a Brooklyn Watch case...

In Ehrhardt's Trademarks book, the wheat marking is shown and indicates....

14K solid gold outside
8k solid gold inside

that is the only wheat marking I see in that refernce, but it is not surrounded by the 'box'...

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[Kent]

That sure looks like the trade mark for a Brooklyn Wheat Grade (http://photos7.flickr.com/10756891_df9c6699ac_o.jpg) case to me!

[Kent]

Here's a Brooklyn description of their Wheat (http://static.flickr.com/28/100192902_22a273039f_o.jpg) grade cases. This type of case material is sometimes referred to as a double-stock case.

[StanJS]

Kent and others,

Many thanks. That was very useful information!

Happy New Year all,
Stan