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A watch with no jewels is metal grinding on metal and pretty soon will stop. Jewels are basically bearings on the various gears. Adjustments means the has been specially calibrated to keep constant time regardless of how it is held, adjusted to work in the vertical position, the horizontal position, the left, right, upside down position.

Collectors Weekly: WhatвЂ™s a railroad watch? 18 size Illinois вЂњBunn SpecialвЂќ Railroad pocket watch movement Goldberg: They were built to specifications required for use on the, including the number of jewels and the number of adjustments. That happens with Railroad watches, if I have a 21 jewel Vanguard and I have an opportunity to buy a 23 jewel Waltham Vanguard, I might sell the 21 jewel to help pay for the 23 jewel. If I saw a better watch, IвЂ™d buy that watch and try to sell the lesser examples of it. So IвЂ™d sell those to help me buy another one I wanted. There would be two I wanted to keep, and eight that were similar to ones I already had or were not in as good condition. IвЂ™d go to Brimfield and come home with 10 watches. When I started collecting, I had in my mind a growing list of the types of watches I wanted to buy, representative samples of various types of watches. Over the years IвЂ™ve had hundreds, but over time IвЂ™ve traded up to get better examples. Collectors Weekly: How many watches do you have in your collection? Goldberg: IвЂ™d have to count, but IвЂ™d say about 40 or 50. The Waltham name has been either acquired or stolen by various companies over the years, so sometimes youвЂ™ll see a modern, cheap battery operated watch that has a big red W on it, but that has no relation to the Waltham Company. The company itself went out of business about 1953. They made high-end, repeater watches that chimed on the hour, high-end chronographs, stop watches. And second, they made pretty much every type of watch, which no other American company did. There were smaller companies that made by hand as far back as the 1700s, but Waltham was the first American company to use the assembly line to mass-produce watches. ItвЂ™s the oldest American watch company in terms of mass production. There are two things that I love about Waltham. Collectors Weekly: WhoвЂ™s your favorite manufacturer? вЂњWaltham was the first American company to mass-produce watches on an assembly line.вЂќ Goldberg: I really prefer the, made by the American Waltham Watch Company in Waltham, Massachusetts. I also found watches on eBay, back when eBay was starting, the mid to late 90s, you could go on and find some good bargains. I joined the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, the NAWCC, and they had regular meetings where you could meet with other collectors and buy, sell, and trade with them. I used to go to the Brimfield Antique Show out in Western Massachusetts that happened twice a year. I find pocket watches in a variety of places, flea markets and antique shows.

This Vintage 1906 Ladies Waltham Pocket Watch features a Gold Filled 'Crescent Watch-Case' Company Case. The dial is double sunk and has only minor damage by the setting lever and some minor chips at the center, hidden by the hands.

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The serial number of this watch is 254603 and was produced in 1906.

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'In 1904 this man managed a series of mergers, which brought together his own Philadelphia Watch Case Co., Bates and Bacon, Crescent and the Keystone Watch Case Co.' From page 7: After a series of mergers in 1904 the name became the Keystone Watch Case Co., Riverside, N.J.' The sterling silver case weighs about 4 ounces and was made by the Crescent Watch Case Company. Boston' It is also marked for the Crescent Watch Case Company (see notes), marked crescent extra indicating a gold plated metal. I love holding a little piece of history in my hands. Pretty soon they just started growing on me.

A couple months later I saw another very nice antique pocket watch with a pretty dial on it, and I thought, IвЂ™m not collecting or anything, but IвЂ™ll have two. I was impressed by it, over a hundred years old and still running. I happened to find one at an antique flea market.

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Crescent Watch Case Co Serial Numbers Average ratng: 4,0/5 3515votesДЎ6 size Hamilton model вЂњ992вЂќ Railroad dial I got started collecting partly because I hated wearing wristwatches I used to carry my wristwatch in my pocket, so I thought why not just try getting a pocket watch.