1955mercury
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I picked this Waltham up at a flea market this morning for $10. It's running but I don't know how accurately. I don't know much about Walthams but I think it's a 1932 model.
Hi, I recently saw the movie "Hail Caesar!" (my FL comments on it http://www.thefedoralounge.com/thre...ovie-you-watched.20830/page-1140#post-2197901) and noticed the lead character was wearing a stunning Waltham watch:
Does anyone know anything more about this watch / model? Thank you.
cmoy, a very nice specimen of an English fusee full plate pocket watch indeed.
I recently took delivery of a similar item, also key wind & key set. It was made by a Welsh firm known as Jones & Jones. On the dial they boasted that it contained the "New Victor Lever Escapement". The watch runs - after I figured out that fusees are wound counterclockwise - but loses time, it's in the queue for servicing.
Don't lose that key!
That watch & key combination would work really well with a sterling double Albert chain. That would take up 2 pockets on your vest but still leave 2 for other items. Vests with 4 pockets are the cat's meow!Thanks viclip! I love the slow loud ticking from these fusee pocket watches. I would love to get my hands on a late 1700's version I'm trying to be very careful with the key. I need a thicker chain for it since my pocket watch chain doesn't have one for the key.
I THINK that's a early 50s Bulova judging from the lookTank Watch
I know it is a bother to wind every day, though I just love the look and the feel of having something mechanical strapped to my wrist.
Vintage Hamilton Boulton wristwatch.
First and only vintage watch I have had. Gold filled and keeps time very well. I wear it daily.
this is a late 1920s waltham, possibly 1928 or 1929Waltham produced various similar octagonal models in the late 1920s & into the 1930s, this could be an example. The company may have continued such designs into the 1950s although the Art Deco look would have been considered dated by then. Of course in the 1950s a character sporting a 20- or 30-year-old watch would not be "out of period"; such a watch could have been a graduation gift, wedding present etc. & it would blend in with the times. Congrats to the movie makers for using a timepiece befitting the time period, there are infamous examples of movies being released with silly mistakes including having characters wearing watches which weren't produced until decades after the time period in which the movie was set.