waltham pocket

[GandalfPC]

Only thing I can find is that it is a Model 1857 - 7 or 11 jewel

[Steven Mercer]

Mike M

From the "American Watch Company, Serial Numbers 1,001 to 1,500,000" book which is still in print http://www.hoapress.com/ the list also has the additional information, 18S, and 11 jewels.

Steve

[Tom McIntyre]

The Home Watch Co. watches and perhaps some Broadway grade watches were marked Boston instead of Waltham. It appears from your example that the same is true of some Wm. Ellery grade watches. There has been a lot of speculation about why this was done but no one really knows the answer.

It was most likely R. E. Robbins' attempt to differentiate them from the higher grades but it may have been that he thought people who bought really cheap watches were more likely to have heard of Boston than Waltham.

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

[This message has been edited by Tom McIntyre (edited 11-06-2002).]

[Wes]

Love those 1857s, especially serial numbers below say 500,000. Yours sounds like a great watch!
What is the difference between coin silver and sterling silver?

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NAWCC# 156994

[rrwatch]

Coin silver can vary in content depending on where it was made. All U.S. coin silver is .900 fine (900/1000 parts pure silver). European coin silver can be .800, .850, .875 or .900 fine. Swiss coin silver is usually, but not always, 800 fine.
Sterling silver is .925 fine, but is sometimes marked .935.
Fine silver is the highest quality, at .995 fine.

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Ed Ueberall
NAWCC #49688

[Jerry Treiman]

Here is a link to a similar Wm. Ellery (#74,011) that is also marked Boston. http://www.nawcc-info.org/Treiman/JT022WmEllery57.jpg

[This message was edited by Jerry Treiman on January 24, 2003 at 1:55.]