![]() The movement is signed, American Waltham Watch Company, Adjusted, Safety pinions and serial number.Ĭase – Assumed gold filled or plated, this case is in excellent condition for its age. ![]() This movement was made to fit into a hunting case and used Pendant winding and lever setting, mostly with 15 jeweled (ruby) movements with some in gold screw settings and used a Church patented (1885) regulator, bimetallic balance wheel with Breguet hairspring and was adjusted for position, temperature and isochronism. 35, model 1883, made by the American Watch Company, Waltham, Massachusetts, and Serial number 3217112 dating production to May 1886 - October 1887 in a run of 1000 such movements. Movement: This is a damascened nickel full plate movement, the Grade no. The upper recessed dial center is signed, ‘American Watch Co. ![]() The inside of the cuvette had a soft iron center ring and the hinged cuvette when closed, deflected electrical currents away from the balance and hairspring in order to prevent the detrimental properties of magnetism in reducing the precision of the movement.ĭial: Double-sunk round white enameled dial with Roman hours, closed bar minute track, Arabic markers placed every five minutes around the periphery of the dial, sunken subsidiary seconds dial steel Spade minute hand and skeletonized steel Cathedral hour hand (likely a replacement). The interior of the covers reveals that the case number is 238892 and the cuvette is marked “anti-magnetic shield, patented December 4, 1883” (Giles Anti-Magnetic Shield Case). This is a design in keeping with the natural flora and fauna inspired by the Art Nouveau years of c. The outer covers have an engraved antlered buck with engraved foliage on one cover and foliate forms on the other with a polished blank surface for the owner’s initials. USA circa 1883Ĭase: Size 18, gold filled (no solid gold marks noted), four leaf, hunting case pocket watch with extra heavy gilt case (box case) and fluted ball pendant and round bow placed at the twelve position (savonette) opposite the case hinge. ![]() Gent’s, Art Nouveau era, size 18, gold filled with anti-magnetic shield (inside the cover), pendant wound and lever set, savonette, “box” hunting case pocket watch, Grade 35 made by the American Watch Company, Waltham, Ma. I shall try to help you with that tonight. Thank you for sending in this pocket watch to for an appraisal. ![]()
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