I have been looking at these prices for cleaning and replacing balance staffs...I thought i would check with Rich Kuhn and see if he could match these prices if he can i belive i will quite watch repair..
Just kidding Rich

this ad is from 1915

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You don't have to go back nearly so far to find good prices.



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Samie,
No need to quit watch repair. I think those are Rich Kuhn's last year prices.
Brian C.

Brian,
That is my price list from a year ago . Samie how did you get it.
Times they are a change'n

Rich i have several old books and advertizing pieces from the early 1900,s ,these were in the stuff i got from a watchmakers estate...

Looking at Toms post these prices may have been high for 1915...Hard to imange such low prices it shows what a dollar was worth way back then..

I've got to back Rich on this....those ARE his prices...but once you factor in overhead, gasoline to pick up the boxes at the post office, dog food..... Regards. Mark

My watchmaker asked me to find him a price list he could adjust & print out for a jeweler he does work for. I found one on the board and gave it to him a few months.

Just went by at lunch today and gave him the "updated price list" above.

I for one would not want to work for the kind of wages folks got then. A dollar was a much more difficult to get in those days than a hundred dollars is today.

I for one would not want to work for the kind of wages folks got then. A dollar was much more difficult to get in those days than a hundred dollars is today.