Regina Watch Co. (Omega?)

[harold]

Go to Bulletin Search. I think it is Volume 41, Issue 318, Page 94. Good luck. I have 1 watch in the name of regina. Nicely made movement.

[Tom McIntyre]

I have a sales brochure around here somewhere (or maybe a trade journal ad) that identifies Regina as an Omega brand. I have the impression that it was used mostly for lower grade private label items, but I don't know that for sure.

I have one Regina movement with a Quebec jewellers name on it.

Tom McIntyre
NAWCC 2nd VP
Tommy the JOAT's Web (http://www.AWCo.org)

[Kent]

Darren:

There were several past topics about Regilna on this message board. the old ref::Most Recent is from about seven months ago.

Kent

That guy down in Georgia :smile:

[Kent]

Darren:

Would you please tell us the rest of the details about your watch?

Serial number on the movement & the rest of the movement markings (number of jewels, adjustment, etc.)?

Can you tell if its 16 or 18 size?

Is it lever-set or pendant-set?

Hunting-case or open face?

Arabic or Roman dial, 13-24 hour figures?

Is the dial signed "Regina" or ""W.A. Fenwick, Shelburne Ont."?

Case material & make, hinged or screw-off back?

Many thanks,
Kent

That guy down in Georgia :smile:

[Kent]

Darren:

Thanks for the data. A J. Boss case is the very essence of a gold filled case. According to "History of the American Watch Case," Warren H. Niebling, Whitmore Publishing, Philadelphia, PA, 1971 (available on loan by mail to members from the NAWCC Library & Research Center (http://www.nawcc.org/Library/library.htm)):

1853 - Randolf & Reese Peters were making cases in Philadelphia, employing James Boss.

1859 - J. Boss received a patent for "spinning up" cases made of "gold-filled" type material. That is, material made of a sheet of composition metal (usually brass) sandwiched between two thin sheets of gold.

1871 - J. Boss sold patent rights to John Stuckert of Philadelphia.

1875 - T.B. Hagstoz & Charles N. Thorpe formed Hagstoz & Thorpe, purchasing the manufacturing facilities and "J. Boss" patent from the estate of John Stuckert.

1883 - 1885 - T.B Hagstoz withdrew from the company which became C.N. Thorpe Co. and shortly thereafter it was reorganized as the Keystone Watch Case Co.

That guy down in Georgia :smile: