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Subject: RE: BS: Vintage watch thread From: Jack Campin Date: 08 Jan 16 - 04:36 PM Smiths alarm clocks, 1960 |
Subject: RE: BS: Vintage watch thread From: olddude Date: 09 Jan 16 - 12:00 AM That is way cool jack, thank you |
Subject: RE: BS: Vintage watch thread From: Will Fly Date: 09 Jan 16 - 04:39 AM This is still one of the greatest films about how a watch works - the Hamilton watch factory in 1949. I have a Hamilton Grade 747 just like the one featured in the film. How a watch works Wonderful watches. The modern Swiss Hamiltons are good - I have a Khaki Mechanical with an ETA 6497 movement in it, but there's something about the original US movements. |
Subject: RE: BS: Vintage watch thread From: Will Fly Date: 09 Jan 16 - 05:03 AM This is one of the most intricate and beautiful Hamilton wrist watch movements ever made (IMO) - the "Intramatic". It's an automatic movement, developed with Buren, which uses a mini-rotor. It's not the most efficient automatic movement by a long way, but gorgeous to look at! Hamilton "Intramatic" Click on the pic of the movement to see it larger size. |
Subject: RE: BS: Vintage watch thread From: gillymor Date: 09 Jan 16 - 08:21 AM olddude: "I started carrying a size 18 hamilton 21 Jeweled railroad pocket watch. I can see the damn thing without reading glasses." Exactly the reason I asked for (and received) a Seiko Solar military style watch for Xmas. It has characters almost as big as my Waltham Vanguard which I only carry when I wear a suit, about twice a decade. Between the Seiko and my lovely Citizen's Eco-Drive my outdoor and indoor chronometer needs are met. Not trying to hijack your thread, Dan, just wanted to say a few words on behalf of solar aficionados and the mothers in Nashville. |
Subject: RE: BS: Vintage watch thread From: olddude Date: 09 Jan 16 - 09:20 AM Those are great watches gilly. Will, I completely agree with you. Wonderful |
Subject: RE: BS: Vintage watch thread From: frogprince Date: 09 Jan 16 - 11:28 AM Dan, we had a spring gala reception at the local art gallery last eve. That little Waltham attended, with the chain looped across the red vest my current lover made for me a few years ago. |
Subject: RE: BS: Vintage watch thread From: olddude Date: 09 Jan 16 - 01:35 PM Wonderful foggy thatis a great Waltham |
Subject: RE: BS: Vintage watch thread From: cnd Date: 10 Jan 16 - 01:31 PM I bought a watch at a yard sale a couple years back but it has no identifying info on it. Nothing like your fancy ticking ones, but I thought it'd be an easy way to find out if anyone knows what type of watch it is. Here's a picture of it: http://i.imgur.com/MUvXHZY.jpg Any help identifying it would be great. Before the question is asked, it doesn't work and I don't have the strap. It does have a (presumably dead) battery on the back that is about the size of the watch, and two buttons, one on either side. |
Subject: RE: BS: Vintage watch thread From: olddude Date: 10 Jan 16 - 04:22 PM Cnd, in the early 80s they made a ton of this style digital watches. Some Japan movements some from Taiwan, the us made would be marked. Could be just a new battery. You can pry open the back and replace it. It should run and the old ones are fun |
Subject: RE: BS: Vintage watch thread From: banjoman Date: 11 Jan 16 - 06:11 AM I own a 1930,s Benson Gold Pocket watch. Its in perfect order and keeps time accurately. Bought to replace the similar one bought as a 21st birthday present for my father in 1931 which mysteriously vanished after his death in 1951. |
Subject: RE: BS: Vintage watch thread From: GUEST Date: 11 Jan 16 - 06:40 PM I am not familiar with Benson but I bet it is a beauty ... I usually carry a hamilton 992b like the one my dad gave me as a teen. That one was destroyed in a house fire but I have the exact replacement that will go on to my grandson |
Subject: RE: BS: Vintage watch thread From: olddude Date: 11 Jan 16 - 08:18 PM Sorry last post was me |
Subject: RE: BS: Vintage watch thread From: frogprince Date: 11 Jan 16 - 09:13 PM "I usually carry a hamilton 992b like the one my dad gave me as a teen" Appalachian roots, for sure; Dan, just how old were you when your teenage dad gave you the watch? |
Subject: RE: BS: Vintage watch thread From: Will Fly Date: 12 Jan 16 - 04:56 PM J.W. Benson was a London watchmaker in the early years of the 20th century - Swiss movements imported and then cased and finished in London. I have Benson watch with an Audemars movement: Benson Audemars |
Subject: RE: BS: Vintage watch thread From: olddude Date: 12 Jan 16 - 05:28 PM Wonderful |
Subject: RE: BS: Vintage watch thread From: Will Fly Date: 14 Jan 16 - 06:54 AM My latest Swiss Hamilton - the X-Wind Automatic Chronograph. This is an aviation watch with a rotating bezel sliderule system which allows the calculation of crosswind drift. All I need now is the plane to go with it! http://www.mjra.net/WillFly/Hamilton%20Khaki%20X-Wind%20Automatic%20H776660%20face.jpg |
Subject: RE: BS: Vintage watch thread From: Will Fly Date: 14 Jan 16 - 06:55 AM Wrong link! Hamilton%20Khaki%20X-Wind%20Automatic%20H776660%20fa |
Subject: RE: BS: Vintage watch thread From: olddude Date: 14 Jan 16 - 09:51 AM Those watches will are amazing.. I absolutely love it |
Subject: RE: BS: Vintage watch thread From: keberoxu Date: 03 Sep 19 - 03:06 PM This past weekend, I drove to Waltham, Massachusetts, once known as the City of Watches, I hear. I wasn't there about time-pieces. The trunk of my car was full of books, which it was time to get rid of. By the railroad tracks that follow the banks of the Charles River, a long street of warehouses includes one property which maintains a shop for second-hand books. The shop is staffed by the teenagers and adolescents who participate in a program for older children in care of some sort. The program is a non-profit. The building is the real deal, warehouse-wise, with garage doors and loading docks. And they happily took my grocery sacks full of books. Had an awful time getting to that shop, however, because of one-way streets and also two-way streets on which left-hand turns are forbidden ... had to go around in spiraling circles in my car just to get from Point A to Point B. Okay, thread hi-jack over. Thanks for listening. |
Subject: RE: BS: Vintage watch thread From: cnd Date: 18 Apr 22 - 10:26 AM I was recently gifted an antique pocket watch from a family member. He told me it was owned by my great grandfather, and was used during his days as a signalman and cook while working on a caboose. He said it was circa 1880s and looked a lot like this one (link) -- Illinois Watch Co. with a gothic script logo, Arabic (not Roman) numerals to show the time, and a smaller circle for the seconds. I haven't opened it up to get a serial number yet. Sadly, the action is not currently working. I'm considering taking it to a local watch shop to get it fixed. |
Subject: RE: BS: Vintage watch thread From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Apr 22 - 10:50 AM My great aunt once informed me that Ansonia, Connecticut, was the "City of Watches." Timex used to be there. |