Hello everyone

I have an 1930's Ingersoll character watch that has a movement made in Germany of the 'dollar watch' type marked on the plate as Ingersoll and Foreign. My research leads me to believe it was made by a firm named Thiel or Gebrüder Thiel. It is very similar to this firms 'Regular' calibre. I have some pictures of my watch below to illustrate.

My question is what should the stem looks like as this is missing.... the stem is pushed to set the time. I do though have a clip that was placed just above the winding stem entry into the movement. There are some photos on this forum to a similar thread from 2009 under the title "R.D.L. lever pw" which shows the movement and a lever to the right of the winding mechanism on the 'Regular' calibre which is not present on my example.

Any help appreciated, thank you.

Kind regards
Douglas

You might want to contact this gentleman who specializes in Ingersoll and who is in the UK (Kent). His name is Steve Ward.

steveanddiana@btinternet.com

The Stem and winding pinion may be assembled with the case. Lots of examples at;
http://www.mickeymousewatches.co.uk/Ingersoll.html

Thank you Roger and David for your suggestions and I have contacted the person suggested and the web site given was one I visited early in my research. The trouble is that all internet examples are fully cased. There is a good overview of Thiel watches on the Wiki Watch Site in German which shows many movements but there is not one example so far of the type of movement I have.
What I hope is that there may be someone on this forum who has a similar watch and may be willing to uncase the movement and photograph the case with stem in situ.... I would love to return this watch to working condition as it is of great sentimental value. I realise though, this is a big ask as these watches are quite collectable and of value!

Kind regards, Douglas

Hi Guys. I will be responding to Douglas's request very shortly.
Regards, Steve.