Top-shelf for the Model 8 with the Seth signature was this 17-jewel variant with an uninspired pinstripe pattern:

Fronted by a faux double-sunk Arabic dial with matching light spade hands:

Wrapped up in a lesser "thin" Montauk case:

Eric perhaps the pinstrpeing is uninspiring but it is elegant.Beautiful watch!
Regards
Roger

Thanks, Roger

Keeping in mind that the serial numbers for the Model 5 started at 200,000, the earliest movement that I can find is 200,392 in a black-and-white catalog re-print.

This example is a 15-jewel unadjusted Grade 159:

The earliest specimen in my collection is SN 200,406 - and it's a 15-jewel adjusted Grade 204.

Note the pattern change from the ad above:

It fronts the standard double-depressed Arabic dial:

Well-fitted into a very healthy Crescent case:

Nice looking case - Eric...

The Grade 159 was mid-level in the Model 5 family - pendant-set with a micro-regulator, and at 15 jewels it made for a very solid carry watch:

This specimen fronts the black-only 24-hour radial Arabic dial:

Bunkered into a Supreme gold-filled case:

The grade of that watch may be mid-level, but that dial is top shelf. I love it

Thanks, Ryan

My own favorite is the rarest Seth Thomas dial of them all - the double-sunk 24-hour Montgomery:

Awesome 24 hour dials Eric! The Canadian Montgomery dial is the first one I've seen.

John III

Thanks, John

Here's another variant of a Grade 182; this specimen is the straight-nickel version of a pattern shown a few pages back.

Fronting it is a black-only heavy Arabic dial with matching heavy spade-and-poker hands:

Carefully guarded in a massive Crescent swing-case with a copper-inlay train and tender on the back:

Very nice!

Yes Eric I'm with you on that one. That 24 hour monty is superb my friend.

Thanks, boys

Another one of the lesser named grades is the 18-size Republic, shown here in a machined gilt finish:

Fronting that 7-jewel Model 12 is a rare embossed metal dial: