Hello, This is the watch I picked up a couple of years ago Hard to get a decent photo
So inscriptions as below, would appreciate your opinions case closes but it’s not a positive click, thanks Les

Case, Movement, & Cuivre dust cover all have the same number1042622
Back JWB 18k Queens head facing left Size dia; 35mm Pin set

Examined by J W Benson
62 & 64 Ludgate Hill
London
Swiss made
Watch makers by warrants to the Queen

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Hi Les

Here is a link to another watch with information on Mr. Benson

https://ihc185.infopop.cc/eve/f...=900102871#900102871

Also if you search for Benson you find a couple of pages of hits;

https://ihc185.infopop.cc/eve/f...arch&reqWords=benson

Tom

Nice watch Les, it's quite likely that the dial is 9K or possibly 18K gold too!

The movement is a fairly standard Swiss lever type, imported and Retailed by Benson, not made by him ....... the clue is also in the engraving 'Examined by .......'
The case was also imported by him, otherwise it would have had a full complement of London assay office marks.

Benson used that particular casemark (JWB in an oval) at 62/64 Ludgate hill from 26 July 1882 - 31 August 1912, when it changed to 'JWBlD' in a rectangular shield with clipped corners.
The mark on your case ties in with the address engraved on the movement.
Being pin set, I'd put the watch around early 1900's give or take.

The bow is plated brass, and the inner dome marked 'Cuivre' means it's made of 'Copper'.
It is a legal requirement for any metal plated to appear as a precious metal to be marked showing the composition of the base metal used, so I'd guess it would have been 18K plated to match the case.

The case has a ding next to the balance, which is probably why the cover won't snap closed.
It's also essential on any of these fob watches, to ensure the inner dome is snapped shut before the outer, because this can also distort the back and case band, and being gold, easy to do being quite soft.

One of the movement screws is also undone near the ding, and I'm wondering if this has been loosened because the case distortion is stopping the watch when it's tightened up.
Try nipping it up and see if it keeps going, but don't nail it down too tight!

The 'Albertina' attached the the watch is a Very nice piece too, is that 18K gold also, or silver, not too clear from the pic's!

John