Horological Meandering

A colleague lent me his pocket watch to show to my kid. Little did he know that I’d be bewildered and mesmerized. I haven’t even gotten enough of a ‘fill’ in order to hand it off to my son 😍😝 I’ll have to look into getting one of my own. Please enjoy, and...  

Not mine, alas. ...  

I see some similarities in the tourbillon bridges to Patek's

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I love pocket watches, especially chronographs used for olympics in the old days, nowhere as refined but dirt cheap! Great Sinn divers and great view too. While I like Sinn I don't have any of their divers yet!

U1 or U50, depending on your wrist size

For me the essence of watches is the pocket watch. I seen watches the first, later i saw pocket watches. As the first time i saw a pocket watch i was a child, so not very late. When i was young i liked to feel the case of a pocket watch. I had i think a b... 

It looks like a long way down

I don't get the darker gold piece at the top, near the 12 marker. Looks like it has fallen out from the bottom left.

Don't really get used much , but nice to have. Cheers JML ...