Back before I started collecting pocket watches, I was collecting wrist watches. I always wore a watch(Still do) to work but when I got in a purchase I would also wear it.Thus 2 watches. One day in the break room my manager asked me why 2 watches? I replied "Well let me tell you and pointing to my left wrist I said this watch is fast and I use it to start my breaks,then pointing to the right wrist,I said this one is slow and I stop my breaks with it." She never asked me again but I did explain that I was only checking the timing on one of them. I never knew the correct time!
Roger
Posts: 4093 | Location: Carbon, Texas in the USA | Registered: January 24, 2010
Excellent find. I think the Hamilton 950 was on of the most beautiful watches made in the USA. I found an early (c1908) 950 a few years ago in a Duluth antique shop, for a song. One of my mentors in the 1970s, who was a Soo Line watch inspector, commented that 23 jewel watches (except Waltham) weren't encountered that often as 23 jewels were more than what was required. By 1977 the main requirement for a pocket watch was a white hairspring and a 24 hour dial.
Posts: 653 | Location: St Paul, Minnesota in the USA | Registered: May 04, 2004
