Re: Identifying old Pocket Watch

On Mar 15, 9:13 pm, "Ian Partridge" <jpartri...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Your pocket watch is a late one - the Birmingham date letter 'F' is for
1930.  (Note the two cusp shapes of the halmark bottom).

Yes I found the stamp information online and noticed that shape on the
bottom which suggested 1930 to me as well.

 Your great grandfather bought a new watch not an 1854 antique one? This
ties in with the pendant hand settting and winding, Swiss export number, and
'Swiss Made' fired on the enamel dial. Imported items into the United States
had to have country of origin markings on them by law. The protectionist
McKinley Tariff Act of 1890 was amended in 1921 so U.S. imports then had to
have 'Made in....'

I have no idea how the watch came in to my great-grandfather's hands.
He lived in Ireland and so I am guessing the watch came from there.

The hands on your watch would suit a demi-hunter case as the minute hand has
a thin waist where the small outer dial would show.

Interesting - I just google'd "demi-hunter case" as I had never heard
of that before. A nice way to protect the watch!

J.G. Graves, I believe, did make English lever pocket watches in the 19th
century. They had an interesting feature of an extra barrel wheel between
the plates of the keywind  watches to mimic fusee (anti-clockwise) winding.
This was to appease customers who wound their new going-barrel watches the
'old' way and broke them!

Thanks for the additional information, Ian!

Dave . . .
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