Hi all
I have no intention to compete with any of the above watches, but here is my Howard.

Movement

Another movement shot

Case back

Dust cover. Lovely dedication. Does any one know of this "PEW"? What kind of shop could it have been?
Regards Krister

Krister

I will do some more searching this evening but I found a James A. Albro who was a shop machinist in East Providence RI in the early 1900's who went onto be the foreman. I wonder if PEW might have been their union P?E? Workers

Haven't found anything to say the guy in RI is yours but I did find where there was an electrical wire company called Providence Electrical Wire Supply so perhaps PEW was Providence Electrical Wire? So perhaps the James A. Albro I found was a machinest/foreman there. It looks like he died sometime prior to 1923.

Tom

Tom
I appreciate every effort you make. It´s always nice to know something of the history of a watch. Or any old thing for that matter. Without it, it´s just another heap of junk, no matter how nice.
So this could very well have been his retirement gift?
Thanks again
Krister

My first E. Howard & Co. Boston movement--48443. I have been collecting watches for the past 15 years and this is my first Howard movement. What say you/////

That hunter, Series IV, Howard looks very nice. Does it work? Did it come with a dial? I wonder what is with the baby gold balance screw - is it matched on the opposite side? A person has to love those smokestack gold jewel settings! Howard collectors are sophisticated people.

Thanks so much Howard & Mary Ann . . . that's what I call real class.

My second E. Howard & Co. Boston movement. On my wish list for 2012 I will be looking for an all original-hands,dial,case, and movement E. Howard & Co. Boston watch.

Harold: Did the series IV N size movements come with a dust ring?

Mike,
Will post pics of the dials fronting the movements. Maybe Harold or another Howard expert can tell us about the baby gold balance screws. Movements are currently not working. Any info regarding these early Howards will be appreciated.
Tony

Hello Jerry, yes the SER IV should have a dust ring.
Tony, The smaller balance weight screws are not correct, my guess it was used to balance out a replacemaent hairspring, but that's just a stab in the dark guess.....
Here's a very unique damaskeening pattern E. Howard you folks might like.....

Harold,
All I can say is AWESOME.
Tony

This is my Howard. It was given to me by my father and belonged to his grandfather. Paul

Dial

I really don't collect Howards, but I have 3 Howards and 4 Keystone-Howards. My most recent acquisition is one of my nicest Keystone-Howards, a circa 1905 Waltham bridge movement model in a 14k Howard-signed case.

Here is the movement.

Harold,
Did the early Howard's have a lot of movement patterns/////
Tony

Here is my E.Howard Series III recently repaired and serviced by Chris Abell. The case is not original to the movement, I got the case with a series IV movement in it. Case is marked H18 sn# 8733

The Movement sn# 8461

The Curvette

The Outer Case