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A better look at the Howard watch
Dial is tired but it’s about 100 and it has been used well before I bought it 20 years ago.
Pry open the back of the Keystone watch case, and you are faced with another back, protecting the movement. Do you really want to go further? You will need a knife, fingernails won’t open this.
OK, both backs are open.
Movement ticking away happily. The depth of this is really something (especially compared to a wrist watch) it’s just fun to see things ticking and turning. Sorry my phone’s not the best for this.
Cazalea
Pocket Watches - What? Why? & How?
I started getting interested in watches around 2000, when I was almost 50. I had 2-3 everyday watches and Grandpa Carl's gold pocket watch given to me by my grandmother after he died. And his gold bumper-wind Omega. We don’t have any children but we do ha...
A better look at the Howard watch
Dial is tired but it’s about 100 and it has been used well before I bought it 20 years ago. Pry open the back of the Keystone watch case, and you are faced with another back, protecting the movement. Do you really want to go further? You will need a knife...
Absolutely love this post.
I’ve worked in a bike shop as well. I think I would have a blast listening to some of your stories. I’ve been thinking about tracking down an Elgin pocket watch. My grandmother worked there for a while, and both my parents grew up in that city. I need to ...
Elgin made excellent watches, I think I have one somewhere
I worked for a company in Elgin 50 years ago. It was David C Cook Publishing… they later moved to Colorado Springs, I think. As we were just married and had bought a house, I wasn’t eager to move to the midwest when they got tired of me being a remote wor...
Fantastic post. Always interesting to see how we each got introduced into
the hobby and then fell completely down the rabbit hole.
Hi Mike, lovely story and some nice watches there!
Have you seen this video? youtu.be Best, E.
Not yet - the opening reminds me of being a member of NAWWC
I’ll try to stay awake long enough to “watch it” no promises because the doc told me to get some rest. Thanks
Looking at your Avatar I remember you have a Ventura - talk about oddball 😳
Here’s my SPARC Now long gone, like so many others! Mike ...