Back of the Watch Pix

[StanJS]

Do you have one of these little extras that came with a watch? They are a little window into the watch wearer's history. What picture do you have in your watch?

I don't remember which watch had this picture in it. I keep it in the back of my Hamilton 990.

Enjoy,
Stan

 

[RRPocketWatch]

I would drive myself nutz with something like this. I could spend a lifetime trying in vain to figure out who that was, and I'd be crazy enough to do it. If I'd ever aquire a watch like that, I'd have to know. That is one of thoes things thats priceless. Imagine if there was a name on it. You then could trace it to the family.

 

[richiec]

I think the watch belonged to Sheriff Andy Taylor, that's Aunt Bea.

 

[Jerry Bryant]

I don't remember which watch had this picture in it. I keep it in the back of my Hamilton 990. Enjoy, Stan

StanJS,

As you know from having contributed, I have a current NAWCC MB posting about an 1860's Period paper-framed tintype child's portrait that is inside the back lid of the mammoth silver hunter case Tremont Pocket Watch SN2357 that I aquired five days ago. The fellow avid American Pocket Watch collector from whom I aquired this Tremont, told me a few days ago that he quite literally could not sleep all night on the first day of our transaction, due to the fact that he kept seeing (not literally, of course, but in his 'mind's eye') the child that is pictured in the tintype of the Tremont's huge back lid. He realized that he had become "attached" to the tintype photo child, almost as if the child was a family member!

IMHO, Original and Authentic Antique photos inside the lids of our American Pocket Watches, definitely add to their intrinsic worth, and even bestow a certain amount of "personality" to our antique timekeepers! These antique pocket watch photos are guaranteed to have been someone that was extremely important to the original pocket watch owner!


I consider my Tremont's tintype child's portrait an integral part of the Tremont itself. I believe that this tintype should remain there as a reminder of family values, held dear even with the passing of 150 years of time (as is believed to apply with my Tremont's tintype child portrait's probable age), and as displayed across the respective Centuries by the dial and hands of these American antique timekeepers!

Jerry