I'm not sure that many did back in the day - I have just checked mine and It has nothing on the case indicating a maker either. I know its genuine because my Grandmother bought it for my Grandfather in 1932. :)

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Unsigned pocket watch case

 
 By: slungu : April 15th, 2021-04:16
Hello together, I am eyeing a nice pocket watch with what I think is a wonderful movement, ony problem I have is that the gold case is not signed. It shows a mark to indicate 18k and does have a serial number of six digits, both placed on the inner lid, b...  

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 By: slungu : April 15th, 2021-06:06
The seller was also saying that not all cases were marked and that for the US market also some movements had been cased in the US, hence not arriving from overseas. Eventually, my consideration came from the case being a 18k case, so not a cheap one.

Yes it is a VC

 
 By: slungu : April 15th, 2021-22:22
Movement looks like this : Serial number of the movement being 322xxx would place it around 1910 as far as I know - and I kind of like the movement . But just in case I might need to let repair work to be done that my local watchmaker can not cope with I ...  

Other candidates

 
 By: slungu : April 17th, 2021-02:58
I am currently on the search for a decent VC pocket watch, as in decent both in condition and pricing, if that is possible in todays world. Beside the one that I already mentioned in this thread that has a little hairline crack in the Vacheron signed dial...  

Addition on the silver one

 
 By: slungu : April 17th, 2021-04:23
The silver one is stated to have an inscription on the case stating "Keystone Watchcase" and "Silveroid" making it not quite the highest grade of cases if I understood the information on nawcc.org correctly - in harsh contrast to the movement imho.