NO RESERVE AUCTION – LOOKING FOR A BIG BEAUTIFUL SOLID COIN SILVER ANTIQUE POCKET WATCH THAT IS 135 PLUS YEARS OLD BUT IN EXCELLENT CONDITION?

HERE IT IS! BEAUTIFUL 0.900 FINE COIN SILVER MASSIVE 4 OUNCE OPEN FACED “DUEBER COIN” SIGNED POCKET WATCH CASE! THIS IS ONE OF THE HEAVIEST OPEN FACE CASES I HAVE SEEN.

THIS WATCH IS RUNNING STRONG AND KEEPING GOOD TIME. IT COMES WITH A 30 DAY WARRANTY SO BID WITH CONFINDENCE!

THIS IS A KEY WIND AND KEY SET WATCH THAT WAS MADE 18 YEARS AFTER THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR! YES, A KEY IS INCLUDED IN THE AUCTION TO WIND AND SET THE TIME.

YOU SEE 3 & 4 OUNCE COIN SILVER CASES ON HUNTING CASE POCKET WATCH FROM TIME TO TIME BUT AN OPEN FACED 4 OUNCE CASE IS A RARE BIRD! – VERY SCARCE! THIS IS A BIG WATCH AND IS IN FACT A STAGGER ING 59mm IN DIAMETER AND HAS A TOTAL WEIGHT OF 176.5 GRAMS! THE DUST COVER HAS THE NUMBER “4” ABOVE THE SERIAL NUMBER THAT STANDS FOR “4 OUNCE”!

THIS IS THE WALTHAM MODEL 1877, “P. S. BARTLETT” GRADE, 18-SIZE FULL PLATE, GILT, MADE IN 1883. IT IS KEY WIND AND KEY SET AND IS IN WONDERFUL CONDITION.

NEAR MINT EXTRA FINE PORCELAIN DIAL WITH NO CHIPS AND NO HAIRLINES – PERFECT!

RUNNING STRONG AND KEEPING TIME - THIS WATCH COMES WITH A 30 DAY WARRANTY!

THE MOVEMENT IS GILT AND HAS A FINE PATENTED REGULATOR, IT HAS 11 JEWELS. THE WATCH IS SERIAL NUMBER 2,262,021, WHICH PUTS PRODUCTION IN 1883. THE BALANCE HAS EXCELLENT POISE AND A STRONG FULL BEAT!

THE 0.900 FINE COIN SILVER CASE IS IN FANTASTIC CONDITION (a couple very shallow tiny dings and scratches like you would expect), THE BIG BEAUTIFUL BOW IS EXCELLENT. THE WATCH HAS A GLASS CRYSTAL IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. THE WATCH HAS GOLD SOLDIERED HINGES IN EXCELLENT CONDITION AND THE COVERS SNAP INTO PLACE PERFECTLY. NICE AND TIGHT AND THEY OPEN TO EXACTLY 90 DEGREES!

THE PICTURES DO NOT DO THIS BEAUTY JUSTICE! BEAUTIFUL, ORIGINAL, 18-SIZE WALTHAM IN A WONDERFUL MASSIVE 4 OUNCE SILVER CASE - MADE IN 1883 - WOW!

HERE IS A LITTLE HISTORY ABOUT “P. S. Bartlett”. Enjoy:

One of the early employees of the Boston Watch Company, a precursor to the Waltham Company, was a man named Patten Sargeant Bartlett. From Henry G. Abbot’s “History of the Watch Factories of America" we learn that Bartlett’s family was one of the oldest and most famous puritan families in Massachusetts and that his great uncle, Josiah Bartlett was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. P.S. Bartlett left Waltham to assist in the organization of the National Watch Company at Elgin Illinois. He eventually wound up working for Waltham again as a salesman and then ran his own wholesale business.

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