May 27, 2009 · 18-Size Waltham movements and 16-, 14- and 6-size complete watches are listed on pages 6-11 of the 1886 H. Muhr's Sons catalog. 18-Size & Other Sizes Waltham Watches: 1887 S.F. Myers Catalog. 1891-1893 (Approx.) M.C. Eppenstein & Co. Pocket Price List , undated - but appears to be early 1890s, pages 14-17, courtesy of the Internet Archive and ...

Sep 19, 2016 · Waltham's 1894 model 12-size movement hit the market around 1896 and Elgin's "1898 model" seemed to make its appearance in 1899. Both companies were proud of their new line of smaller gentlemen's watches, and this was before the two companies started colluding and making any innovative changes in lock-step with each other.

Sep 5, 2010 · Waltham pre-assigned large blocks of serial numbers to Ball to keep his watches in numerical sequence of the last six digits, so the WIs seem to come from 1907-1908 using usual sources, but using the earlier logic (no Ball WI ads to work from) shows that the Waltham WI wasn't available prior to 1913.

Jul 21, 2022 · This was truly one of Waltham's most elegant standard production watches. Extremely thin by American standards, it was introduced around 1913 and was the thinnest American movement at that time. Waltham's initial model was 14 size and was made in two grades - Maximus (21j) and Riverside (19j) and were offered in solid gold cases of various …

Jul 6, 2024 · In the main the Swiss sold large volumes of copy watches, 'look-a-likes' but they did not try to pass them off directly as Waltham's or Elgin's. So you see a lot of Waltham 1883 look a likes with no signature (sometimes they have a serial.). Swiss copies often have no id, …

Nov 28, 2023 · Good day everyone, I was hoping an expert on Waltham watches could tell me all about my great great grandfather's pocketwatch (make and model, how many were made, possible value etc). He bought it after he came to Canada from Sweden in …

Jan 22, 2001 · Watches after 7,500,000 can only be identified from the 1954 book that was intended to allow parts to be ordered accurately. No one knows why Waltham had the other volumes produced. However, Marsh was working on a history of Waltham, possibly with the assistance of Keith at the time the books were prepared.-----Tom McIntyre

May 5, 2018 · The first is definitely a chunk of watch, mainly because of the massive nickel Waltham case. It is an 1884-model 7-jewel pin-set “Bond St”, made in 1885. The cased watch is as large, if not larger, than many 16-size watches.

Oct 2, 2011 · Your watch is typical of Waltham's export products. These tended to have plain gilt movements, were mostly lower jeweled (7-15), had white enamel Roman numeral dials with the added line "Waltham, Mass" to indicate their origin (some later export watches were also marked U.S.A.) and were cased in England in English cases (commonly made by Dennison).

May 27, 2009 · A large number of Waltham watches imported into England ended up in Dennison cases (frequently marked "A.L.D."), and with good reason. The Dennison Watch Case Company was founded by a founder, and former principle, of the Waltham Watch Co., Aaron L. Dennison (Dennison, Aaron Lufkin).