As far as I know I am the northernmost member of IHC185 located at latitude 54.7.
The only other IHC185ers I know up this way are Bill Manders and Walter Colk at lat. 53.9
We have had several informal meetings of what I like to call The Hinterland Horology Club (HHC51, the 51 is arbitrary, the year I was born).
I know Bill has a few of these watches as well so Bill, this is a Waltham C.R.T.S./C.P.R. throw down.
5 years from today lets tally up who has the most of these watches and you, I mean the one with the least has to pony up for dinner, drinks included, for the 3 of us in P.G.
Are you in?
Posts: 2093 | Location: British Columbia in Canada | Registered: March 02, 2011
Gorgeous watch, Lorne. FYI, I think you juxtaposed the second and third digits in the serial number--it looks to be 15112541.
According to PWDB, total production on this beauty was a whopping 1001. Here's the info they show:
Grade: C.R.T.S.
Movement Serial Number: 15112541 Grade: C.R.T.S. Model: 1892 Estimated Production Year: 1906 Run Quantity: 200 Total Production: 1,001 Size: 18s Jewels: 17j Movement Configuration: Openface Movement Setting: Pendant Plate: Full Plate Adjusted: Yes
Posts: 1088 | Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota in the USA | Registered: October 15, 2013
As far as I know I am the northernmost member of IHC185 located at latitude 54.7.
Lorne, I have to disapoint you since I'm living at latitude 56.34 in Sweden. However, you might still have the bragging rights for being the northenmost member on the American continent. BTW, a very nice watch.
Regards, Krister.
Posts: 375 | Location: Backaryd, Sweden | Registered: April 19, 2009
Mike, I guess the only way to get by that emotion is to buy more watches.
Krister, I can happily live with the American bragging rights. This gave me reason to look up latitude, each degree is about 69 miles and each min. about 1 mile so you are 75ish miles north of me.
Posts: 2093 | Location: British Columbia in Canada | Registered: March 02, 2011
Lorne, I guess we could move to Dawson Creek, that should ensure the northernmost lat. at this time, and I am still thinking of a somewhat witty response ! Bill
Posts: 1278 | Location: British Columbia in Canada | Registered: May 19, 2008
Lorne, I just noticed that one of my CRTS watches is just a few numbers away from yours. My #15112511 is a private label dial with the same numbers - Roman/Arabic - as yours as well.
Posts: 542 | Location: Ontario in Canada | Registered: February 10, 2010
Thank you Mark, I ate a bit too much but had a nice trip.
I went to a meeting of the Edmonton Watch Club, nice bunch of guys. A "Hello" to Larry Buchan from Marvin Berger.
On the way back convened a meeting of HHC51 in Prince George. Just Bill Manders and I, Walter Colk is in the process of moving to a lower latitude so we will lose 1/3 of our membership.
Ralph, nice to see the same dial which legitimizes it for this run at least.
Peter, I have a dial on a model 1892 C.R.T.S 15005591(1906) which is almost identical to your 1892 C.P.R 20000160, but the fonts are slightly different and the 5 min markers are rectangular.
Posts: 2093 | Location: British Columbia in Canada | Registered: March 02, 2011
