NO RESERVE AUCTION – LOOKING FOR A BIG BEAUTIFUL SOLID COIN SILVER ANTIQUE
POCKET WATCH THAT IS 140 YEARS OLD BUT IN EXCELLENT CONDITION?
HERE IT IS! BEAUTIFUL 0.900 FINE COIN SILVER MASSIVE 4 OUNCE OPEN FACED
“KEYSTONE 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.
THIS IS A KEY WIND AND KEY SET WATCH THAT WAS MADE 14 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 58.5mm IN DIAMETER AND HAS A
TOTAL WEIGHT OF 185.9 GRAMS! YOU WILL NOT SEE ANOTHER SOLID SILVER OPEN
FACED KEY WIND WATCH THIS BIG ANY TIME SOON! THE DUST COVER HAS THE
NUMBER “4” ABOVE THE SERIAL NUMBER THAT STANDS FOR “4 OUNCE”!
THE MOVEMENT IS GILT AND HAS A FINE PATENTED REGULATOR, IT HAS 11 JEWELS.
THE WATCH IS SERIAL NUMBER 1,187,843, WHICH PUTS PRODUCTION IN 1879. THE
BALANCE HAS EXCELLENT POISE AND A STRONG FULL BEAT!
THE WATCH HAS THE ORIGINAL THICK 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 1879 - 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.