Factory Colonial case

Based on performance to date, I give this movement high marks. Not sure what kind of magic Dave worked on it other than to know he went over all the pieces parts with a fine toothed comb. Replaced two shafts/pinion gears and otherwise tweaked it here and there 'till she succumbed to his standards.

Here is a 16s model 2 with an interesting "spider web" design from the last run in 1896. Keeps very good time. I"ll carry this one "Down under" for a month and let you know how it does when I get back.

Steve

Nov 21: After 26 days on tour in New Zealand and Australia, and only changing the hours, the watch is 27 seconds ahead. I think I'll keep it!!

my carry for now on
got this Ball/Ham999 from Buster, COA done by
Dave Abbe runs like Ball/Ham should +15 sec in one week in my pocket.All I did remove the original
Ball case and place it in no name salesman case.

movement side.

Well not the fanciest watch I have but one I have come attached to . A Hamilton 992 c1929 in a salesman's case . I like the salesman's case easy to show .

This is the front of the watch

Running my "new" Hampden, an 18S 15J O.F., one of those kind of scarce "W.J. Johnston" movements.Has a really cool wavy line damaskeen pattern and gilt screws and regulator.Rob Carter did a great job bringing it back to life,looks nice and keeps RR time!

I'll throw in a post for the new year, and the first South Bend in the thread, unless I somehow missed another one..

I'm a young guy at 22, and never thought I'd carry a pocket watch.. But I find myself hooking this one on a chain and taking it with me everywhere I go. 1909 South Bend 227 16s 21J.. I'm still "dialing it in", but right now it's losing less than a second a day.

My 229 "The Studebaker" is currently getting overhauled and will be a display cabinet show piece.. But all my other watches, I feel the same about them as I do the dozen or so 50's cars I've owned.. What good are they if you don't use them?

As a new guy here, thanks to everyone who has posted.. I enjoyed reading this thread!

Nice looking watch...

Nothing wrong with loving these old works of arts!!!

That is an outstanding dial. even with the age cracks. Lets see whats wrong here 22 and a dozen or so 50's cars.

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Lets see whats wrong here 22 and a dozen or so 50's cars.

Eugene you read my mind! That's a lot of big American steel at a young age.

I grew up in a family of Studebaker addicts.. They've always been around in my life. I still have the '59 pickup I drove to high school at 16, and I've had nearly a dozen others. They were all fun cars and trucks. I'd buy one, play with it, fix it up a bit, sell it, and move onto the next one.. I got burnt out spending all of my spare time in the garage twisting wrenches, and got into South Bend watches.. A natural since Studes were also made in South Bend. Still expensive, but they take up a lot less space!

Carrying my new Hampden this week, an 18S RR grade lever- set 21J Dueber Watch Co., which I got as a movement only from member Barry Hanstein.Runs great and looks right at home in the Dueber SB&B silverine case I put it in.

16S 19 jewel Hampden Railway model 5.

This new member pipes up with the fact that until last week, he was wearing the pocket watch he rec'd upon graduation from high school. That would be a 17j 12s Majestine Incabloc, hc. Heh.

But just lately I got two better watches of my own, one of which I will wear: a clean Waltham '92 17j Riverside because it's real pretty to look at and it held good time on one wind for 36 hours. My display-back 21j Hampden (1919) is sitting on my desk so that I can steal glances at the movement in action.

Ken H.

Ken congrads on finding this site. And WELCOME

Thanks, Eugene.

Lately I've been wearing an unbuttoned vest on the weekends, ala Daniel Day Lewis in "Lincoln". When I do, I will wear a KW Waltham. Other days when I feel like a "big" watch I will carry an 18s Century, Trenton or Waltham. My favorite carrying 16s are a Bunn Special, a Waltham 645 19j, and a 992. When I wear a wrist watch I try to wear a trench watch so I can sort of enjoy the best of both worlds. When it is time to dress up I will usually wear a Bulova or Benrus wrist watch from the 20's or 30's.

This week I'm carrying my newest addition, a 16s 19J Hamilton 996 with a Blind Man Montgomery dial.What a beautiful movement, I'm thrilled to finally get one!

this is mine

This month I'm carrying a '92 Vanguard hunter, in a Dueber case.

The dial.

I'm currently carrying this one, back from the watchmaker about 2 weeks now, it is my daily carry. A Hamilton 992B in a stainless case, with a porcelain montgomery dial. Holding to less than 1 second a day at present.

Very nice South Bend and the above 992B.

I wear this 12S Elgin GM Wheeler 452 on occasion. It has a 14Kt white gold case with raised, yellow gold numerals, minute marks and hands. The seconds dial is sunk and has the same characteristics. A most elegant piece of art from 1926.

still very "new"

back

movement.....6 adjustments, 17j

Still hauling the mail. Hamilton 950B

Great pic and theme Geary!

Thank You Geary, for getting my Priority Mail boxes [watches that I sold] to there destinations.

Thanks guys, that is a hastily arranged pic, looks like just south of Lakeland Fl enroute to Memphis from Miami. About 36000 feet and doing 483 knots across the ground. This one is a daytime but most of our flying is backside of the clock. The mail likes to travel at night. About 130,000 lbs of mail on this one. Gene, keep em coming, plenty of room left. g

Since 1 June 1970 (every day) it's been a post-production Hamilton 992B. One internal repair (dropped at airport security a long time ago) and one external repair (original bar and bow self destructed and disappeared - it took quite a search to find a "close enough" replacement)

Before that, a smaller Waltham that I have not yet identified - I recognize my incompetence to remove the back (looks snap on, maybe...). When I got it (handed down) it had a greenish crystal - which I promptly cracked. The replacement is nice and clear.

Looking for hints on how to identify the Waltham without removing the back. The face does not resemble anything I have found online, so far. San-serif numbers, slightly larger 12,3,9, second hand dial has concentric rings: inner ring has 60 divisions and is very narrow, outer ring has 6 divisions, with 10, 20, 30 in the middle of each box and dividing lines at 5, 15, 25,... Just a small "WALTHAM" as a label.