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  1. viclip

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    That's a good watch. Incidentally, American Walthams are often found housed in Dennison cases on your side of the pond. The Dennison chap who formed the Dennison watch case company, was one & the same as the entrepreneur who co-founded the original Waltham watch company back in 1850...
  2. viclip

    Let's see your mechanical watches

    In addition to my interests in pocket watches & vintage wristwatches, I also dabble in modern mechanical watches. A few years back I acquired a Swiss-made automatic "No. 8" commissioned by Asprey of London, the famous English jewellers outfit known for their trademark usage of the color purple...
  3. viclip

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    I meant to ask whether the English case housing your Waltham, was manufactured by the Dennison company?
  4. viclip

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    Apparently the founder of the Ball Watch company - Webb C. Ball - rivalled P.T. Barnum when it came to showmanship. I think it makes collecting vintage items all that much more fun!
  5. viclip

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    I'm a great fan of American Walthams myself, you're doubly fortunate in as much as your Waltham is a family heirloom undoubtedly of great sentimental value. Incidentally if you can access the back of the movement, every Waltham has a serial number on one of the plates. You can enter that...
  7. viclip

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    Thumbs up for your fine pair of Glycines! Based upon my evaluation of the Ningaloo Reef Auto Chrono which I picked up in 2013, I share your praise of Glycine watches ~ excellent Swiss quality at reasonable price levels. There are many bargains out there for great Swiss watches as the...
  8. viclip

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    VOLUPTUOUS VINTAGE VICTORS Nothing like a fine pair: I have an affinity for the Swiss brand of "Victor" watches. That outfit produced pocket watches using Swiss ebauche movements beginning in the latter half of the nineteenth century, in due course transitioning to wristwatches. They...
  9. viclip

    Pocketwatches

    I love the Snorks. I used to love restoring them too. Those conical Sheaffer nibs are terrific writers!
  10. viclip

    Pocketwatches

    AMERICAN ROCKFORD IN 18-Size Rockford is one of the lesser known American pocket watch brands from days gone by. I recently picked up an 11-jewel specimen encased in a silver "swing-out" case with one of those nice thick crystals: The crystal & the dial are in minty condition. Pendant...
  11. viclip

    Pocketwatches

    Hi Fabio, that's a very nice pocket watch, I especially like the railway track chapter with the interspersed 24-hour markers. Is that pen the 1949 version of the "fat" Sheaffer Touchdown?
  13. viclip

    Pocketwatches

    Thx Fading Fast. I especially enjoy sleuthing about whenever I pick up a watch that's been engraved with someone's name with an associated date.
  14. viclip

    Pocketwatches

    CANADIAN ILLINOIS BUNN SPECIAL It's been raining all day. Fortunately an Illinois Bunn Special which I recently purchased off of eBay, arrived in today's mail, giving me something to play with: Made in 1921 or 1922, it's a Model 9 Variant "B" with a Rayed Pattern on the nickel movement...
  15. viclip

    Birks Rideau

    Your 17j-jewel Zenith is a stunner. That dial sure stands out & appears pristine. Thx for posting!
  16. viclip

    Birks Rideau

    Good to hear that your Birks chronograph has been serviced, evidently satisfactorily. Being a 2-register chronograph, there is only a single register available to tally up the minutes, the other register being the "running seconds" one which works constantly whether the chronograph mechanism is...
  17. viclip

    Birks Rideau

    Wow, your heirloom chronograph looks to be in tip-top condition! Birks is a Canadian jewellery outfit, founded in the late 1800s. Your watch would be 1950s or 60s, at a time when Birks-branded quality watches were manufactured for them by Eterna. In all likelihood your chronograph movement...
  19. viclip

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    Great find! I can't make out the price tag, what did this gem cost back in the day? Did the warranty cover it for 1 year?
  20. viclip

    Anyone know anything about fountain pens?

    Please be careful using ammonia around pens. Ammonia will attack some plastics, including modern ones. I found that out the hard way when I managed to "cloud" a component in a pricey Pelikan demonstrator piston filler of recent manufacture. Also, at least one highly regarded professional pen...
  21. viclip

    Anyone know anything about fountain pens?

    Hurricane, is that white LITHIUM grease? If so please don't use it, non-silicone greases cause rubber to swell, deform, burst etc.
  22. viclip

    Anyone know anything about fountain pens?

    You bring up an interesting point about an early plastic which was actually made from milk. It has various names, most commonly "casein". Sheaffer as far as I am aware never used casein in pen production. Fortunately for Sheaffer, the rival Parker Pen Company had made that mistake early in...
  23. viclip

    Anyone know anything about fountain pens?

    Great work Hurricane, we can now identify the filling mechanisms of your family heirlooms. Your father's fountain pen from the 1940s is, as expected, a Sheaffer "Vac-Fil" ("Vacuum-Filler"). These celluloid pens fill on the downstroke with the nib immersed in ink. A well-known pen restorer (no...

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