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.
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.
Posts: 3850 | Location: Georgia in the USA | Registered: September 22, 2011
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.
Deacon
Posts: 1004 | Location: Omaha, Nebraska in the USA | Registered: February 14, 2009
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
Posts: 1626 | Location: North Dakota in the USA | Registered: December 09, 2009
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".
Posts: 803 | Location: Knoxville, Tennessee in the USA | Registered: September 02, 2009
