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Lever guns have a history deeply rooted in the late 1800's. I have loved that era, growing up playing with guns and watching westerns on TV. I try to accumulate western memorabilia as well. Pocket watches are a part of that. I have this Elgin solid gold watch which I wear to a Cowboy Shoot or special occasion.
It is a 17 jewel hunter case with a box hinge. The face is porcelain with sculpted hands and embossed numerals. The chain is 14K gold as well with the elk Ivories I got out of my first elk. The silver dollar is one I kept since I was a kid. The frame it is mounted in is an 18K gold pocket watch frame I found in a dump near an abandoned homestead...
Good looking pocket watches. I am a watch collector also. If you do a search on here you can prob. find our other thread on pocket watches and see some of mine and other's pics.
So if a guy has some pocket watches he want's to get rid of how would he go about it? Fleabay jusy doesn't seem like a good way even though I'm not sure of the value.
If you're gonna be stupid ya gotta be tough-
Isiah 55:8&9
It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them they have been fooled.
Well Jerry, I would but the only thing I really need is an alarm clock. After I'm up and running it really doesn't mater what time it is from there on.
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Shrapnel, glad you found your way to here. I would love to walk the fields with you and so many others here.
That watch is awesome. I happen to be searching for just the right pocket watch. may take me awhile . I have carried one off and on since I was 16. Blessings
Mike Johnson,
"Only those who will risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go." T.S. Eliot
"...well, I want each of you fellas to buy yourself a dollar ingersol watch. Can't break them with a hammer, and won't lose more than a minute a month..."
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Bill in Oregon wrote:Wow that's a nice piece, and sweeter still with that Morgan dollar!
+1...
Though a $20 Gold Piece would be even cooler...
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man I hate it when you guys pull out the old pocket watches :) --love those things--don't have the time or $$$ to pursue--leverguns are bad enough--nice watch though... :)
Lost a Fleabay bid on a nice pocketwatch from Doxa completely due to inattention -- one of those things where i just set my max and forgot about it -- was outbid by $5 (faceslap)
naturally if i started contesting the bidding process, the price would have risen exponentially though , so maybe would not have been worth it
Here are the two watches I use. The smaller one is a Hampden my Daddy won in a dice game in an alley behind the gas station where he worked in Kingman. The big one is an American Waltham that I rescued from a flea market. Shotgun is my old Baretta Silver Hawk.
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This is the only pocket watch I own wish I knew more about it.....Like when it was made ect...
I do know it's a big and heavy... I where an XL glove so that gives an idea how big it is.
The case is 2 1/2 in. across and a 1/2 in.thick.
Best thing about it is.... it works
I just picked mine up from the watch repairman yesterday:
Open face silver case, gold hour & minute hands, blued second hand. Ordered a new watch chain (mine disappeared somewhere when I started wearing on this fob). It's a little heavier than the one you show Shrapnel, but by golly, the same (or similar) watch fob... now I'm wonderin' if your picture influenced me!!! Gotta get home and choose which coin to use... have several Morgans to choose from... gotta pick a year!
Edited to add: to change pic, hard to get one perfectly in focus... camera must be gettin' old...
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Griff wrote:I just picked mine up from the watch repairman yesterday:
Open face silver case, gold hour & minute hands, blued second hand. Ordered a new watch chain (mine disappeared somewhere when I started wearing on this fob). It's a little heavier than the one you show Shrapnel, but by golly, the same (or similar) watch fob... now I'm wonderin' if your picture influenced me!!! Gotta get home and choose which coin to use... have several Morgans to choose from... gotta pick a year!
Edited to add: Dang, I gotta do a better pic!
Yes, that pic just wont cut it Griff. We need to see the details.
Griff wrote:I just picked mine up from the watch repairman yesterday:
Open face silver case, gold hour & minute hands, blued second hand. Ordered a new watch chain (mine disappeared somewhere when I started wearing on this fob). It's a little heavier than the one you show Shrapnel, but by golly, the same (or similar) watch fob... now I'm wonderin' if your picture influenced me!!! Gotta get home and choose which coin to use... have several Morgans to choose from... gotta pick a year! Edited to add: Dang, I gotta do a better pic!
Yes, that pic just wont cut it Griff. We need to see the details.
Fixed now!
Griff,
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There is a fine line between hobby & obsession! AND... I'm over it!!
No I ain't ready, but let's do it anyway!
I've got a few, ranging from "meh" silver plated off brand "dollar watches" to a nce old 14K filled Elgin and a 14K solid case Waltham (below)
I had the Elgin cleaned and crystal replaced, and carried it for CAS some.
The Waltham in the 14K (solid) Roy case dates to 1894, which is a kinda cool date for a lever gunner It runs and looks prettty good, but at some time a jeweler obliterated an inscription on the back, and it didn't come out quite perfect. Probably worth more in gold now than I paid for it.
This thread kinda took me by surprise as I thought that I was alone with my pocket watch fancy. I guess that I have 5 or 6 of 'em and can't go into a jewelry store with my wife without seeing what they have in that regard. None of mine are particularly expensive or even storied but each one tells a story to me of a time in my life. Thanks for sharing yours.
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Just today I took two pocket watchs to a jewler. My uncle liberated them in world war two. One off a german and one off a russian. One has a type movement the jewler never seen before. He thought the one was made in france. My uncle was pretty rough to start with. (82 AB, a glider guy). I asked him how did you come by a russian watch? He just laughed and said when he saw his first russian solider he wasnt familiar with the uniform and thought the guy might be a jap! I didnt push for the rest of the story. Anyway the jewler thought it would cost more to fix them than their worth. I have had them just sitting in a box of souiveneers I inherited from him for about 35 years now. I have a bunch of patchs etc he cut off german uniforms. Also not long ago I found out about a silk map he had here. Guess it was to find their way out. Also have a good size piece of a parachute.
Carried one all my life, never gave it a second thought; just another extension of my wierdness.
Then I got sent to England to open up a satelite operation.
Holy Carp! Every time I pulled it out, it was like some gremlin fed the women an aphrodisiac!
Got to where I would have to sneak off by myself to check the time.
Most bizarre thing I have witnessed!
Took it into jewelry shop for a cleaning. Guys asks if he could help me, I show him the watch and before I say anything, he asks me if I need the battery replaced.
Not long ago an aunt gave me a pocket watch once owned by my great grandfather born in 1869. I just put some boxes away yesterday and too lazy to find the one it's in.
Is there a typical place on or in the watch where I can find-out when it was made? Think it's either a Waltham or an Elgin. It's large.
I'm death on wristwatches. Carried a pocket watch for a long time as a kid, stopped when I was in the Army (gotta have a fob chain...)
I really need to get another one...
C2N14... because life is not energetic enough. מנא, מנא, תקל, ופרסין Daniel 5:25-28... Got 7.62?
Not Depressed enough yet? Go read National Geographic, July 1976 Gott und Gewehr mit uns!
Mine pales in comparison with some here
It is an 1883 Waltham made in 1904 and belonged to my wifes grandfather, I had to have the crystal replaced. It keeps excellent time
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Sometimes I wonder if it is worthwhile gnawing through the leather straps to get up in the morning..................
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My grandpa showed me his PW first time he took me fishing. That started a life long attraction to watches on chaines. They each are as individual as people. Work on them long enough and you can appreciate the fine planning and mechanical execution that went into each design. Should you ever get the opportinity to see the documentary made about the first sea clock trials do so. Called Longitude. The book about John Harrison is quit a story if you are interested in Horology and determination to complete a project.
Mike in Peru
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