Hamilton 16 size, 21 jewel, Grade 992 first, model, private-label dial marked DA Ressor, Brandon

Dial

DA Ressor was a CPR watch inspector in Brandon, Manitoba. A close-up of the dial.

Hamilton 992 first model movement

Hamilton Model 5 case trademark

Hamilton Model 5 White Gold Filled case back

A private-label double sunk Arabic 24-hour dial signed W.E. Spetz Powasson, Ont.

A construction camp by the Northern and Pacific Junction Railway was established at Powasson, Ontario in 1885. This section of track completed in 1886 was taken over by the Grand Trunk Railway in 1888 and taken over by the Canadian National Railways in 1923. In 1886, the operation of the Northern and Pacific Junction Railway between Gravenhurst and Nipissing Junction sans the development of a second settlement near the railroad, that became the Township of Himsworth.

Dial close-up

Elgin 18 size, 17 jewel, Grade 336, pendant set, Model 5, Nickel full plate. Serial No. 13472342, manufactured 1908

American Watch Case Co. Cashier yellow gold filled case trademark

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Omega private-label 24-hour dial "Crawford Special, Brandon"

Movement low jeweled, marked "W.E. Crawford, Brandon" Brandon, Manitoba is a CPR divisional point on the mainline. I have another of Crawford's watches an Elgin, railway grade.

American Watch Case Co. (A.W.C.Co.) Silveroid case trademark.

Case back, watch was probably marketed for the traveler, using the 24-hour system that the CPR had adopted for their lines West of Thunder Bay,, Ontario to Vancouver Island in British Columbia.

Double sunk bold Roman numeral 24-hour dial marked Waltham. AWC Co.

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Waltham 18 size, 21 jewel, from a run listed as "Assorted Special" Model 1892, Serial No. 18120685. Movement marked "D.A. Floyd, Mattawa" (Ontario)

Mattawa means meeting of waters in First Nations language of Ojibwa, inhabited mostly by fur traders the railway arrived in 1881 due to the growth of the logging industry. Mattawa today is located on the Canadian Pacific Railway Chalk River Subdivision connecting Smiths Falls and North Bay, with an additional connection to Te'miscaming, Québec.

A.W.C. Co.(American Watch Case Co. of Toronto, Ontario) "Fortune" yellow gold filled case.

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