935 Silver Ladies PW signed PEARL

[Kate N]

If you post a picture of the movement itself, someone may be able to help you. Case and dial markings, unfortunately, are not helpful, as both cases and dials are easily switched between watches.

[Kent]

Hi Don:

Larry Jones has written up a useful article on Image Posting (http://www.larjones.com/data/imagehelp.html), which may be helpful.

Currently, Tom Chaudoir, the NAWCC Message Board Administrator, is recommending that those who do not have web space in which to post pictures register for a free account at flickr.com (http://flickr.com/register.gne). This may now open a Yahoo page, but it will still let you register to post pictures. Their menu-driven procedure for loading pictures is about as easy as it gets. After you enlarge the picture, using flickr's magnifying glass icon (the magnifying glass icon appears in a toolbar above the loaded & saved picture once you've clicked on the picture), scroll down below the picture to find the field labeled "1. Grab the photo's URL:" The link in that field is the one to post on the NAWCC Pocket Watch Message Board. Vic Rose has posted an excellent old ref::Description on How to Post a Picture on the NAWCC Clock Message Board..

If you have a problem posting the picture(s), you can attach it (them) to an e-mail to me (you can get my email address by clicking on my name in the upper left-hand corner of this post and viewing my Public Profile) and I'll post it (them) for you.

Its also helpful if you can post all the markings that are on the movement (the "works") in case they can't be seen in the picture(s).

Good luck,

[Kent]

Here are the pictures of Don's watch.

Dial (http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y284/walt845/Don_Didios_Watch_D.jpg)
Movement (http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y284/walt845/Don_Didios_Watch_M.jpg)

[Don Dahlberg]

My wife is always attracted to these watches, but I refuse to work on them.

It looks to be a Swiss ebauche bar movement with a cyclinder escapement. Ebauche is an incomplete movement made by one of a dozen companies and then sold to other companies or even individuals who would then complete the movement and case it. The resulting movement might be finished to a masterpiece or an inexpensive watch. These ebauche movements may well find their way into and English case. Kathy Pritchard book on Swiss watchmakers list some 900 pages of watchmakers in a two volume set. Before she died she added a third volume. These watches are nearly impossible to identify and date. I could only guess the last half of the 19th century. The cylinder escapement suggests the early part of this period.

Don