992 quiz

[Jeff Hess]

I found this among the advertising knick knacks from the WEbb C. BAll Estate. This was in a box of advertising ink blocks. Most of the advertsing stuff was from the Ball Jewelry store.

Note the glaring error in this one?
It is a good thing that the internet attack crowd was not around back then!

Poor old Sidney Ball probably fired his staff if they used this one in advertsing!

Check it out!

[EmmaR]

pls tell us whats wrong?
looks like an ordinary mirror image rubber stamp to me?
maybe I'm dumb.

*EMMA*

[Jerry Treiman]

Jeff - I see nothing wrong with this, either. It looks like an advertising cut for Hamilton's 8/0-size "nun's watch". Note the somewhat gothic bow. This model does have the sweep center-seconds hand for nuns working in nursing.

[Jeff Hess]

:} Well, I guess it is me who is the dumb one!!

It was in a box of stuff marked Railroad watch advertising!

I saw the crown and such and assumed:bang: it was a 992 that had a sweep seconds!

mea culpa!!

:bang::bang:
Jeff

Thanks Jerry and "Emma"!

[Tom McIntyre]

Here is a 992 with a "sweep" safety seconds hand.
http://www.awco.org/MWCo/BorresenDelong/dial+hands.jpg

[Jeff Hess]

show off!

LOL

[Jeff Hess]

And...in a eureka moment (to underscore my own "DOH! moment) I see a faint pencil marking on the side of the adverstising block above that appears to cay "Chatelaine #7".

Sincerely and with great DUH,
Jef

[terry hall]

Yeah! Jerry...

The 'nurse' watch seems spot-on to me...

Nice piece of advertising anyway....


ok Tom... the 'rest' of the story???

[Tom McIntyre]

The picture is of the dial side of Borreson's safety center seconds patent. The back is uninteresting except as a 992. Under the dial shows the mechanism, since it is all there.

http://www.awco.org/MWCo/BorresenDelong/secondgearing_small.jpg (http://www.awco.org/MWCo/BorresenDelong/secondgearing.jpg)

There are known to exist a "set" of the 992s plus a Zenith and the patent model. The patent model was hand made by DeLong. This one would have been the production model had they gone into production.

Further discussion at Borresen (http://www.awco.org/MWCo/BorresenDelong/borresen.htm).
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[terry hall]

Thanks Tom for the refresher course.... and the link... the closeups answer many of the obvious questions...

as soon as I saw the link, I remember an older discussion... strange how time flies...