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kronos
09-30-2006, 11:42 PM
Hello. I have this pocket watch but donīt know its age. Could you help me, please?

http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/5690/1qu0.jpg

http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/1028/2tf4.jpg
kronos
09-30-2006, 11:42 PM
Hello. I have this pocket watch but donīt know its age. Could you help me, please?

http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/5690/1qu0.jpg

http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/1028/2tf4.jpg
doug sinclair
10-01-2006, 12:03 AM
I couldn't see your images. Is it just me?
Jim D.
10-01-2006, 12:48 AM
Doug,

I just looked and they came up fine. It is marked 15 jewel and Swiss made. No other marking I saw but being a newbie I really do not know what I am looking for.

Jim D.

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doug sinclair
10-01-2006, 01:10 AM
Jim,

The images came up fine for me the second time I tried. Thanks.

Clues: Lever escapement, stem set (not pin set), bridge model, Swiss. I'd say late 19th or early 20th century. With generic Swiss watches of the era, I know of no way to say for sure.
importtimepieces
10-01-2006, 03:17 AM
I would say based on the Metal dial and type of hands (if original to the watch), along with the style of movement, it was propbably manufactured around 1920-30? This was about the time when metal dials started replacing the white enamelled dials.
Regards
Jerry Treiman
10-01-2006, 04:47 AM
Actually, this watch could be earlier than suggested. Metal dials were in regular use for dress watches after 1910. The use of a smaller (ladies) movement in a larger diameter case was done to make a thinner man's watch possible. American companies were doing this before 1915.
[these comments are based on the American watch industry, but I expect are close to the Swiss industry as well]
Jeff Hess
10-01-2006, 06:09 AM
These "opera watch" style of watches made with smaller movements to take advantage of the bigger companies success with thin watches (these ladies watches enabled the manufacturers to "Thinout" the cases towards the outer portions) were genreally done in the 1910 to the 1920's!

hope this helped!
W.R. WoodWorking
10-01-2006, 09:15 AM
could it be possibly a non-magnetic watch co. ca. 1897-1905 :smile:
kronos
10-02-2006, 10:19 AM
Thanks for your answers :-)

By the way: What is, exactly ' bridge model' ?
Tom McIntyre
10-03-2006, 03:19 AM
In a bridge model watch, the pivots on the back are held by thin strips or bridges of metal. Bridge is the name of a part with two attachments to the pillar plate. The part with one attachment is called a cock.

The other style of watch uses primarily plates to hold the pivots. Plates come in full plate, 3/4 plate and other variations. In almost all watches, the balance wheel is held by a cock or bridge, so that part does not count in the description.

American bridge movement:
http://www.awco.org/AWCo/American/PremierMax/Movement_small.jpg (http://www.awco.org/AWCo/American/PremierMax/Movement.jpg)

3/4 plate movement:
http://www.awco.org/AWCo/American/Hewett72/movement_small.jpg (http://www.awco.org/AWCo/American/Hewett72/movement.jpg)

Full plate movement:
http://www.awco.org/AWCo/Other/Employee83/movement2_small.jpg (http://www.awco.org/AWCo/Other/Employee83/movement2.jpg)