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Please excuse my near total ignorance of pocketwatches, but I'd like to show you my grandfather's 992, and possibly gain a little information. He was a yardman with the Louisville & Nashville in Gadsden, Alabama, and I inherited his watch in 1982. I have displayed but not run it until last week when I had a jeweler look it over, who said it was in very good working order, so I plan to keep it running and wear it occasionaly.
It doesn't say Railroad on the dial, but has Hamilton Railroad on the top of the crown. Serial number 2570085, 21 jewels, Double Roller, 5 Positions.
Wadsworth case 0506469 (numbers arranged in a "V"). There are also several very small numbers hand-scribed inside the back and on the ledge where the back screws down; are these some kind of maintenance record?
What was the purpose of the bar over the crown? The story my mother told me was that he wasn't allowed to set the time, and had to be done periodically by a jeweler authorized by the railroad. Makes sense except for the lever set mechanism, so what was the point? The bar appears to be made of steel.
The fob key reads B.R.R.T. for Brotherhool of Railroad Trainmen. I don't know when the very crude repair was done, but it's part of why I like it. (The man was a railroader, not a jeweler
.)
I'd like to know about when the watch was made, and perhaps what it might have cost at the time, along with any other interesting bits the knowledge base here may have. Thanks for looking.
Brian
It doesn't say Railroad on the dial, but has Hamilton Railroad on the top of the crown. Serial number 2570085, 21 jewels, Double Roller, 5 Positions.
Wadsworth case 0506469 (numbers arranged in a "V"). There are also several very small numbers hand-scribed inside the back and on the ledge where the back screws down; are these some kind of maintenance record?
What was the purpose of the bar over the crown? The story my mother told me was that he wasn't allowed to set the time, and had to be done periodically by a jeweler authorized by the railroad. Makes sense except for the lever set mechanism, so what was the point? The bar appears to be made of steel.
The fob key reads B.R.R.T. for Brotherhool of Railroad Trainmen. I don't know when the very crude repair was done, but it's part of why I like it. (The man was a railroader, not a jeweler
.)I'd like to know about when the watch was made, and perhaps what it might have cost at the time, along with any other interesting bits the knowledge base here may have. Thanks for looking.
Brian
