Post pictures of your pocket watches

[Emilio]

Please, there is a demand for pictures of nice pocket watches: Hamilton, Elgin, Waltham, Cortebert, you name it! Post some

[Sandwich]

OK. Here are two. Anyone ever seen the 8 day Rolex military? When I sent it to a watchmaker for cleaning several years ago, I barely got it back because he fell in love with it.

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[TimemiT]

[Yoda]

One thing, don't let your old movements run much as an unknown service history will damage your precious movements.

[Sandwich]

Good advice! I don't run my pocket watches, and most of them I have gotten serviced anyway (including the two I posted above).

[TimemiT]

Very true ... I have not wound any of them ... well, the one in the watch case, maybe I wear 1-2 a year ... I'm sure it needs service, and those 1st Gen Athaya bronze crowns are a POS, I have a replacement 2nd Gen... somewhere to swap out.

One thing, don't let your old movements run much as an unknown service history will damage your precious movements.

[TimemiT]

these Hamiltons and the Illinois movements are really nice ... the finish on them would be big money in today's time.

The Illinois are larger ... I believe they start at 12s ligne which is 39.79mm ... which can still drop into a nice case

Hamiltons and Corteberts I believe are 10s ligne which is 38.09mm ... so it is more or less adaptable to a case set that is made to fit a Cort 616 ... most of the case sets that we deal with in our Homage universe

The history of trains and these pocket watches are intertwined ... and so is the expansion of Europe! I remember standing in the train station in Amsterdam ... and saying to myself ... "Holy Crap!!!" ... Paris as well!! ... but I digress

Here's a couple of those Illinois type 12s movements, 1927 .. 19 and 21 jewels

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[Sandwich]

The 8 day Rolex watch above is a pilot's model, with a long stem, made to fit in the cockpit. Here is a picture of a WW I Sopwith Camel cockpit, with one of these watches at the lower right.

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[Yoda]

these Hamiltons and the Illinois movements are really nice ... the finish on them would be big money in today's time.

The Illinois are larger ... I believe they start at 12s ligne which is 39.79mm ... which can still drop into a nice case

Hamiltons and Corteberts I believe are 10s ligne which is 38.09mm ... so it is more or less adaptable to a case set that is made to fit a Cort 616 ... most of the case sets that we deal with in our Homage universe

The history of trains and these pocket watches are intertwined ... and so is the expansion of Europe! I remember standing in the train station in Amsterdam ... and saying to myself ... "Holy Crap!!!" ... Paris as well!! ... but I digress

Here's a couple of those Illinois type 12s movements, 1927 .. 19 and 21 jewels
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A Sangamo and a Ball! Great watches! It's clear to anyone that the Ball was built by Hamilton.
Illinois speaks for itself.

[unreformed66]

these Hamiltons and the Illinois movements are really nice ... the finish on them would be big money in today's time.

The Illinois are larger ... I believe they start at 12s ligne which is 39.79mm ... which can still drop into a nice case

Hamiltons and Corteberts I believe are 10s ligne which is 38.09mm ... so it is more or less adaptable to a case set that is made to fit a Cort 616 ... most of the case sets that we deal with in our Homage universe

The history of trains and these pocket watches are intertwined ... and so is the expansion of Europe! I remember standing in the train station in Amsterdam ... and saying to myself ... "Holy Crap!!!" ... Paris as well!! ... but I digress

Here's a couple of those Illinois type 12s movements, 1927 .. 19 and 21 jewels
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I hate to break it to you but that Sangamo is a 16 size and what Illinois called a "Getty Model" movement. And lignes and American pocket watch sizes are not used interchangably. American sizes are based on Lancashire gauge (English measurement). Lignes are just that, lignes. An antiquated French system of measurement. So it's either "10 size" OR "17 lignes" or whatever. Not both. 10 size and 17 ligne are very similar in diameter but they're not the same. And thus endeth the lesson....