Here's some fun ads from 1920...

B.W. Raymond, Hamilton, Veritas, Vanguard etc.

Bunn Special

17 Jewel Illinois

The Illinois Victor

The McKinley

The Best "Illinois"

Frank "407" Kusumoto

Nice comparison of different company's movements and prices. Does your source have 12-size movements, as well?

Cool catalog Frank. I found a website that gives 1919-1921 railroad economic statistics:

Click here to view 1919-1921 railroad economic summary

Those watch prices don't look so low from the perspective of $0.565 average hourly wages (including management).

Jerry,

Yep, there's a couple or few 12s movements also. For some reason they get their own full pages.

Frank "407" Kusumoto

Put them in the first post of this topic. The movement pics aren't as good so I didn't originally think anyone would be interested. Same 1920's Catalog.

Frank "407" Kusumoto

Frank - these are great! Unlike the usual movement catalogs, these show the dials and cases that originally came on some of these watches. We also learn that the "VICTOR" name was a private-label for L.W. Sweet. Wonderful stuff.

Jerry,
Do you have any other information on the private-label "L.W. Sweet, Inc."? This may be my lost rich uncle that I've tried to locate!

Robert