keystone on dial

dustproof 18s - cannot find anything about a 'denver" model


denver on movement


need help, anyone have any info on these?

limited - on dial and movement, 18s

dial, limited as well

18s - lever set

Andy the one with the Keystone dial looks like it might be a private label Keystone. It looks almost identical to a watch Jared just sold. The only difference I see is the regulator and name.

https://ihc185.infopop.cc/eve/f...6095371/m/1133901477

Andy the Limited looks like a series 3 size 18 Hampden to me.

I agree on both, the odd names seem endless in pocket watches.

A friend of mine told me that all you needed to do back then was order a minimum of 5 watches to have your company name put on a watch. Now that was customer service and it also explains all the PL watches out there.

interesting but seems right for the era. 5 watches was a nice order.

Andy I do not know about the Denver Keystone ( for some reason I think there is a Denver Pennsylvania, but probably just my aging mind) but the Limited is most definitely a Hampden private label and one I have not seen before. Looks to have about the same damascening as the 21j Special Railway.

The first one is a private label keystone. My father has an early lancaster (predecessor to Keystone) that was private labeled for a railroad in colorado that was a small one. That was back in the early 1880S??? either way the company had been doing it for a long, even before Keystone was a company.

Jared

Andy, your Denver is a LANCASTER watch grade. Turn the page on Keystone in the Complete Guide, and you will see your Lancaster/Denver. You would probably find more information sites if you Googled "Lancaster denver watch".