I have only been collecting for about 1.5 years and have come across a number of cases marked "Warranted to wear Permanently"

Are they always solid gold- or could they be gold plated or gold filled?

I greatly appreciate your help!

they will be gold filled you see this marking on a lot of the Hamilton 12 size and also on a lot of the keystone Howard cases.

Thanks for your help. The case I am looking at is a 16 size Fahys- full hunter. The Fahys marking appears in Suggarts as gold filled, however other cases marked with the guarentee to wear permantley show up in Suggarts as solid gold.

I can not find any reference to a solid gold Fahys hunter case- being that it is a 16 size leads me to beleive it is probably gold-filled.

Thanks again

To add to what Lindell said, because these terms were confusing and could not be proven (as is in a 25 year case), the government eventually forbid such labels and set down how gold products must be labeled. I do not remember when these laws were passed.

Don

The Fahys case pic you posted is exactly like the hunter I have been looking at.

Thank you so much for your help. Hopefully I will be able to make the purchase tonight.

Don,

I'm pretty sure that 1924 is the year the FTC regulations changed to require the karat-value of gold be displayed, and forbid the use of terms such as "permanent", or "10, 20 and 25 years". It also ended the use of gold-filled without a karat value and such things as "reinforced gold". My favorite misleading term is in an early Benrus wristwatch, labeled as "Solid gold supported by metal".

For what it's worth,

Cary

By my research- the watch is from 1909-1910, so it looks like the case is appropriate for the movement. Thanks again to all!!