18 Size - 17 Jewel - ILLINOIS - Private Label - W. D. Heath Lakeport N.H. - Chalmers Patented Regulator - S/N 1192739 - ca 1893. Case is not original to this movement.

Question: Can this dial be repaired?

Phil Dellinger
NAWCC# 157070
IHC Life Member (L12)

[This message was edited by Phil D on October 22, 2003 at 15:23.]

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Phil,

Compare your watch with one I am currently running on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2665722492&category=3940&rd=1

Same private label!

When I first listed this watch, I suspected it may have been a Railroad inspectors watch as they tended to have nicer dials and movements in them. I am not so sure this is the case now. Do you have any info on who this was?

David Johnson aka "Doc"
NAWCC Member #155016
IHC Member #169
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Doc,

How unusual that we have watches so close together with the same private label. Serial numbers are only 5 away from each other!! Yours: 1192744 Mine: 1192739

The reference that I am using shows that the serial numbers are in the run of 1192701-1192800 for the year of 1893.

I bought my watch at a local pawn shop in SLC a few years ago because I was facinated with the beautiful checkerboard movement. Sorry, I don't have any further information on the watch.

Phil Dellinger
NAWCC# 157070
IHC Life Member (L12)

[This message was edited by Phil D on October 22, 2003 at 15:21.]

According to the database that Kent Singer and I keep, some years ago there was a listing for a Hamilton Grade 926, S/N 40943, with "W.D. Heath Lakeport, N.H." on the movement and "W.D. Heath Special for Railway Service" on the dial. This might butress Doc's theory that Heath was a railroad inspector.

Ed Ueberall
NAWCC 49688
IHC Member 34
The Escapement

To see the rest of the story on this W. D. Heath pocket watch click on the following link:

W. D. Heath Pocketwatch

movement proximity.....

it would not surprise me to find a same private label withing 5 of each other...

According to Meggers.... he believed many watches were made in groups of ten... maybe 20


RE: dial repair...

possible.... but a correct repair would require dial de-soldering....

i think i would leave it be...