Hi Bila: Found another 2 newer ones hidden away. Serial no. 351433 A)tu-tone plate ie. nickle and gilt, 15 jwl with screw down settings(front plate). Stem wind & lever set. 2 case screws. winds @ 12. This is project watc, Missing dial and some wheels.
B)Seriak #: 289597 nickle plate, 15 jwl with screw down settings (front plate) 2 case screws winds @ 3. Double sunk dial with "beatle " type hands like watch above. Movement appears complete but none running.
Posts: 355 | Location: Kincardine, Ontario in Canada | Registered: November 25, 2013
Just letting everyone know that we are still chasing numbers for Rockford's up to serial 500,001 if you have any you would like to contribute please let us know, thank you.
Posts: 2179 | Location: Gladstone in Australia | Registered: January 14, 2011
Thanks Steven & Gary for your kind thoughts, things have been only very average health wise of late, the wife's as well is not great, but life goes on We are in the process of moving house,so as well all the watch and clock stuff has to be packed so it has been and still is a very busy time
Best wishes to all our Members for the Festive season and I hope all stay fit and well
Posts: 2179 | Location: Gladstone in Australia | Registered: January 14, 2011
Just bringing this up the list, still looking for numbers, we have some 6,500 now in the database but due to Rockford's convoluted production more are needed to flesh-out most of the deviations they made.
So if you have some stashed away anywhere please forward the serials, description and essentially photos if possible, as we are collecting all sorts of minute data.
Posts: 2179 | Location: Gladstone in Australia | Registered: January 14, 2011
No Gary, not as yet. Was to have some preliminary data up by the New Year but due to ill health, a house move and a few other deaths in the Family in the first quarter of this year most things have gone by the wayside.
Also we have been still chasing numbers, we have 1.32% of the serial numbers in the first 500,000 numbers produced and are trying to get 10,000 or 2%.
This has been a very hard and long struggle to get there. Due to the hundreds of change made by the Company with Models and jewel counts at least 2% will be needed to nut out the discrepancies and miss-information about this Company's Watch Production (things will be re-assessed after we make this target as that might not still be enough).
Rockford production is not like most of the other Companies and due to these changes extrapolation can not be used in areas of the production to make a calculated guess on certain runs of models. Hence the ongoing search for numbers
As well as this we are still trying to nut-out how we want this published and presented to the Collecting World.
Posts: 2179 | Location: Gladstone in Australia | Registered: January 14, 2011
Have that one Steve, but a very Nice Example with the flashier damaskeening than normally seen. Have you had the dial off to confirm Jewel count as 11, 13 & 15 jewel counts have been reported in this batch?
Posts: 2179 | Location: Gladstone in Australia | Registered: January 14, 2011
Yes, it is 15 jewel. Do you know if the balance staf is the same as any other 18s Rockford, or do I have to turn one up? Also, have you seen any model 6 with a lower serial number?
Steve
Posts: 676 | Location: Washington in the USA | Registered: May 23, 2010
Cheers for the pics Steve, 6 or 7 different staffs for 18 size Rockfords mate, the one you should need for that is a #342. These Model 6's are an odd fish when it comes to production numbers, there are others before yours with lower serial numbers mate.
The Patent date for the design was 1886 and they supposedly did not come to market until a little time after that. So under that scenario it makes a lot of these including yours probably made much later then their serial numbers suggest.
Posts: 2179 | Location: Gladstone in Australia | Registered: January 14, 2011
