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In my never ending search for the holy grail of Waltham 1888 models, I won this one on eBay. Is there anything special about this excepting the 15 jewel Plate marking on a 17 jewel movement? ebay# 270242328146  | ||
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Dave, You have studied these more carefully than I, but the "15-Jewels" sure looks to me like a later addition. One possibility I have heard is that Waltham may have actually downgraded movements on occasion to fill an order. There are in fact examples of "re-marked" as "17-Jewels" movements that carry a 19-Jewel count. It is hard for us today to understand what was done and most importantly why some of these things were done over the more than 100 year life of these watches. Whether markings such as you found are factory work or otherwise is open to conjecture and we may never really know for certain. So... what do you and others think? Lindell  | |||
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Hi Dave, Although we all miss your lively, informative posts aren't you on VACATION ?  Hope all is going well. Ray | ||||
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dose anyone know what something like this is worth? i would have bid more but i didnt like stuff i read in there feedback. | |||
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Jim, I think a focused collector of model 88 Walthams might want to own this one. Looks like someone was willing to see $59.00 of value in it as an interesting curiosity. Don | |||
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Yes Ray, I am on a cruise and right now we are in Glacier Bay, headed for Skagway or something like that. I threw a number at this watch only because of the markings and as I seem to have accumulated enough 88's to make this useful either for parts, or (more probably) as a restored oddity. back to fun on the ship. | |||
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