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This pin-set pocket watch was found in a Barcelona flee market. It appears to have been made by Dubois Freres & Co. They made Rosskopf and other types of watches in the early 1900's.

It has an interesting style of cannon on the percaline dial.

 
Posts: 2017 | Location: East Lansing, Michigan USA | Registered: November 24, 2002
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The cannon, etc is repeated on the back cover of the case:

 
Posts: 2017 | Location: East Lansing, Michigan USA | Registered: November 24, 2002
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The watch has a Rosskopf style movement. It's visible through the inner glass cover. Fortunately, it didn't need any repair work.

I am wondering about the cannon. The the image represent an actual gun or is it more a product of an artist's imagination of what a then-modern field gun should looks like?

 
Posts: 2017 | Location: East Lansing, Michigan USA | Registered: November 24, 2002
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