Saturday, October 24, 2009

Waltham Railroad Pocket Watch Crescent Street - 21 jewels



Waltham Railroad Pocket Watch Crescent Street - 21 jewels.


A very special place in pocket watch collecting field is held by US Railroad pocket watches. Train took an important place during american history. Antiques from this periode are in very high demand.

Waltham Brand produced many models. Today let's see the "Crescent Street" caliber that you can see in motion below. This movement was very reliable and solid, but what a pleasure for our eyes to see it in motion! Many of the mechanical parts are nicely engraved!

The dial is easy to read (Size 16) with great arabic chapter as usual for Railroad pocket watches. This Waltham Railroad pocket watch has a screwed back case to protect the movement. The pocket watch is "Open Face" type which is easier for a quick look at time.

The case is 14k white Gold Filled. It is extremelly tough to find this type of pocket watch with clean and immaculate dial because most of the time they were hardly used and many "Hairlines" occurs.

Prices are still going up, but this type of Waltham Railroad pocket watches are still affordable in the 250-350 US dollars range. The Railroad watch here is 250 US dollars due to the average condition. The case has heavy traces of wear, but movement is in great condition.

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