Here is a ad from 1899 for Ball Watch Company in which they show the 0 size Ball Queen ..they show in the ad four Dainty little Queens B of L.E. etc. 4 different ones...has anyone ever saw one of these..i would think these are a rare item..

Thanks Lindell for the info and for the pictures...I was looking through some old books for some information on a South-Bend watch and came across this add..,,I had never saw a Ball Queen and did not know they came with the brotherhood marked dials and movements..most of the time i dont look at the small pocket watches but i will from now on..

I bought one a little over a year ago. I have a weakness for gold-hunters of any kind and this one was in especially good shape. That and the fact that it was a Ball, that I'd never seen....

In my database, I have it as 19 Jewels but I am willing to stand corrected and correct the data.

My specimen has a very unfortunate repair to the dial, otherwise I might call it "mint" whatever that means!

Here's the lovely 14k case that sold me on it

Here's the movement. 19 Jewels or not????

Is there a cap jewel on the escape wheel? I thought some of these were 19J also but I have never bought one.

There is no cap jewel on the escape wheel. The case is 14K Keystone. SN of the movement is B056925.

I would be really surprised if these little beauties were to show up with an internal jeweled barrel. So, if you see no cap jewels, it is 17J.

I should have said "at most 17J" in my previous post.

Lindell,

Do any of the Brotherhood Queens have brotherhood markings on the movement?

Wow

Came across this EB item that is closed.
Ball queen serial number B642437. Look up at Lin post from July 20th 2005 08:42. He has B642434. Wow three numbers different.

Keith