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Bonanza from Chicago, JLL Swiss Fake I Presume? "Click" to Login or Register 
Douglas D. Weaver
IHC Member 1650
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Ever seen a Bonanza from Chicago, JLL?
It looks like it would run with a cleaning.
It resembles an Elgin model 2.

Doug

 
Posts: 382 | Location: Illinois in the USA | Registered: November 17, 2011
Evan Patton
IHC Life Member
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Could be a Swiss fake, but the jewels look legit. Not sure.
 
Posts: 995 | Location: Pleasanton, California in the USA | Registered: September 22, 2012
David Abbe
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A good "swiss fake" copy of a "sorta Elgin-Illinois 18s"

The "dead-Giveaway";
1. Equi-spaced "balance weights".
2. Un-cut solid brass balance wheel.
3. Pressed in Hairspring stud (no set screw).

Note, the gold book comments that some American Waltham model 1857 Wm Ellery were marked "Bonanza". Your watch is not of that type, but it might "Run pretty Good" if cleaned.
 
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