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IHC Member 1613
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I bought a Ball Company ww movement today...It needs a lot of help..It is a Ball Company swiss model 1604B 21 jewel movement..Does anyone know who made these movements and what movement might have interchangeable parts...Thanks for any help I can get..
 
Posts: 2003 | Location: Chesapeake City, Maryland in the USA | Registered: September 27, 2011
IHC Member 1291
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Before they sold the Official RR Standard Trainmaster using the Eta 2821 automatic 25-jewel movement [and perhaps other calibres that I'm not aware of], they sold a manual-wind version using the A. Schild caliber 1604B, 21-jewel movement with center (sweep) seconds and seconds-setting [hack] feature. I believe that this was probably the first Ball wrist watch to get railroad approval.

Interestingly, Elgin eventually dropped their use of a domestic Elgin movement in their 23-jewel B.W. Raymond wrist watch, and switched to the A. Schild 1604B for a new 21-jewel, sweep-seconds version of the B.W. Raymond RR Wrist watch, the same manual-wind movement used in the first Ball RR wrist watch!

regards,
bb
 
Posts: 6376 | Location: Texas in the USA | Registered: July 27, 2009
IHC Member 1613
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Thanks again for the info Buster...It looks like this movement will go in my bucket list pile...I am not seeing any other movement that has interchangeable parts...It might take a while for this one..
 
Posts: 2003 | Location: Chesapeake City, Maryland in the USA | Registered: September 27, 2011
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