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Discussing watches yday?

Posted by Tonupdave <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Tonupdave' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 24, 2024, 12:55 pm

Just a selection of my collection of watches
Which one do you thing is the most collectable
Not monetary value

Tonupdave..T.U.D.

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Posted by martin in the USA <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=martin+in+the+USA' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 24, 2024, 1:07 pm, in reply to "Discussing watches yday?"

I don't own or wear a watch but my guess is the wristwatch. Next guess would be the upper right because of the crossover railway interest?

Please tell a little about each when all the guesses are in.

Lock him up!

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Posted by geoff the bonnie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=geoff+the+bonnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 24, 2024, 1:07 pm, in reply to "Discussing watches yday?"

Railway time keeper. I have a large collection of modern watches but stopped buying now as there were so many batteries to keep replacing. Been buying Citizen eco watches lately needing no battery replacements.

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Posted by Andy C <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Andy+C' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 24, 2024, 1:54 pm, in reply to "Discussing watches yday?"

I have always liked pocket watches, in my youth I had an Ingersol one, lost it someplace.

Who needs a signature anyway......

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Posted by Andy C <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Andy+C' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 24, 2024, 1:55 pm, in reply to "Discussing watches yday?"

They would look good on Tic Tok.......OK OK I'll get me coat........

Who needs a signature anyway......

Re: Discussing watches yday?

Posted by Tonupdave <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Tonupdave' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 24, 2024, 5:12 pm, in reply to "Re: Discussing watches yday?"

OK answers.. Top Left an early Ingersoll Crown poket watch a guided case and metal dial . The basic Ingersoll had a paper Dial and a metal case It was known as the Dollar watch as that was the price..
Top right is a genuine Railway watch Swiss movement of quality sold by Edward Taylor of London. Nickel case. And key winding..
Bottom right A Goliath .. Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway this is an eight day watch the spring is almost as big as the case..
Now the wrist watch as you can see it's an Ingersoll.. At the beginning of the first WW the English government put out a call for cheap wrist watches for soldiers in the first WW not many wrist watches were made only very expensive..
So Ingersoll came to the rescue producing a small cheap movement and case.. as you can see the winding button still in the same place as a pocket watch.. the dial was of printed paper and the numerals were painted with Radium for the dark
This one is genuin even the strap is original
It has been authenticated by the British Horological Society and I have loaned it for display.. ...
The S&D railway watch is fake the dial has been doctored..

Tonupdave..T.U.D.

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