This watach is marked No. 1047. Made expressly for I. Q. Hatch & Co. Waltham Watch Co. The serial number indicates a 1908 date. It is 21J, 5 positions. Center wheel looks to be gold, I am not sure about the raised settings. Is this a Vanguard or a Crescent St. Jerry Treiman seems to have some knowledge of Hatch.

Hatch movement.

Jerry,
If I'm reading the S/N correctly (17,052,257) the Waltham S/N books justs lists this run as "Assorted Specials".
That's not much help and Kent & I do not have any other examples recorded in our database.

Jerry - the winding wheels and finish look like that of a Crescent St. grade. I do not really know much yet about Hatch except that several of his special ordered movements appear in these "Assorted Specials" runs. This particular run of 1,000 movements includes primarily the "Patrician" label (10-ligne to Colonial Series) amongst the first 500 with several Tiffany & Co. movements thrown in. Yours is the first Hatch movement I have seen from this run, as well as the first example from the second half of the run. Hatch movements also appear in three later groups of specials and include this grade as well as a 17j model.

Well Ed, I guess you now have a new entry for your data base.

Jerry: There is one entry for Hatch in the Ehrhardt/Meggers book with the gold cover. See page 301. I wonder if this could be a Riverside model.

This entry in "the little golden book" is probably referring to the same watch that is illustrated on page 87 of the Encyclopedia, Vol.1. I believe that both this one and yours are Crescent St. grade for a couple of reasons. It has 21 jewels and it was only much later that some Riversides had 21j. Also, the pattern on the winding wheels is typical of the Crescent St. grade rather than the Riverside grade.