There are many complex charts and diagrams to describe in excruciating detail our 100 year history of watchmaking according to who made how many pocket watches and when they were made.

My collection is all recorded in excel. So I did a simple histogram of the percentage of my jeweled Pocket watches that were made during each relevant decade.

The histogram;
1860's 1%
1870's 3%
1880's 14%
1890's 15%
1900's 28%
1910's 22%
1920's 10%
1930's 2%
1940's 4%
1950's 1%

Pretty simple. The only skewing factors here might be from "war losses", and societal shifts in "keeping things of value". But whatever "was", this "IS" how it is in my world now.

Pretty much follows the production time line from beginning to the end of actual watchmaking here in the U. S., doesn't it?

Regards! Mark

Aside from the slight skew toward the late 19th, it resembles a typical "bell" curve. its smaller %'s (for me) seem to because of the scarcity of the 1860's watches(and the price of them now) and the utilitarian stamped out look of the 50's-later. Pre 30's,to me,= Art, Style, and Precision.