Hi all, I am a newbie to the site and to pocket watches for that matter and would dearly love as much information on a pocket watch that used to belong to my grandfather. The mechanism has American Waltham USA with the serial No. 10481809 inscribed onto it. The case which i beleive is gold is bears the name Dennison watch case Co Ltd, the case has the letters A.L.D 9.375 and the serial No. 229414 on it. I have no intention of selling it, I just want to give my family's watch some "identity".

Thanks, i will post some photo's when I have re-taken them as the ones i took earlier are to large to "post"

Seems you have an export model Waltham made for the English market. A.L.Dennison was a founder of Waltham and later moved to England where he he established a watch case manufacturing company. I'm sure someone else can add details.

Paul, that serial number was assigned to a 16 size (about 2" diameter" cased) "Bond Street" model 1899. That confirms Williams first reply and I can add this was made around 1900-1901 for the export market. A nice looking movement and eminently serviceable if needs be.

hi paul,

I am new to the club. just started collecting pocket watches. what I know about waltham that the watch was made in Boston, the serial number that you gave me tells you about the date, in your case it is 1902. inside the back of the watch. it should tell you how many jewels doesn't have. their are other things that are marked in the watch. the cover has their own number. if it was solid gold it would tell you how many carats it is. if you get more information at me know. and maybe I can give you a value to the watch. is nice talking to you.

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Don't hold me to it but I think Dennison marked their 9K cases like that.

Tom

Paul, the other experts on the forum will help you identify your watch, but on the case marks, the '9' will be for 9 Carat Gold, which is signified by the .375 mark near it.

There should be other hallmarks too if you can let us know what they are - or post a photo.

John

Watch face

Inner cover

Hope the photos help, sorry for delay in posting them

Once again, I am not an expert at reading the UK marks but I believe your case is stamped that it is 9K gold, made in Chester (the anchor symbol) & I believe the "W" is the style for 1921.

That would make the case newer than the movement & I could be wrong on the year but that is what it appears to me. You will notice by looking at the movement & the back of the case, that the case held a different movement at some point in time. Looking at the edge of the case where the movement is screwed down you will see the outline of case screw marks at about the 11:55 mark & also near the 5:00 mark.

It is still a very nice case & made by a very well known maker.

Tom

Tom, that's a well trained eye you've got there, I just looked at the case again and you are right, I'd never noticed.

Thanks again

Well, you might just have to take your pick on the hallmark depending when Dennison quit making watch cases.
The last recorded date of registration I have for Dennison, using the mark 'ALD' in a shield, was 4th Feb 1920, at 22-23 Villa Road, Handsworth Birmingham.

The Anchor in a shield is the assay mark for Birmingham, but the conundrum is the actual date mark!
The mark on your case, could either be Birmingham 1921, as Tom states, or, Birmingham 1946, because the blessed date letters are virtually identical (W)!
The earlier form is slightly bolder, and the anchor is slightly more weak in form, but with case wear etc, virtually impossible to distinguish between the two.

Unless Dennison is known to have worked well into the 1940's, I'm going with Tom on 1921 for the date........ but well prepared to be corrected!

Certainly a recase, so the movement manufacture date is meaningless in this case.

John

John

Thanks for correcting me on the location, I had looked up the mark this morning & then wrote the post from memory. I knew I couldn't trust that!

Tom

Don't worry about it Tom, you were probably thinking about the English Lever topic you replied to - that one Was Chester

John

John

That was it, I had looked that up 1st & then wrote this one without going back. Then I insult the good folks of Chester about their wheat! Were so sorry Uncle Albert!

Tom