Guest Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Inside an assorted "old junk" shoe box I pick up a N. Robert & Fils 18k pocket watch....I asked the owner how much...."$50" no way! It was an old lady so I gave her $50 and my fiancee made me give her another $45.....Ohh well I felt good about the purchase....You'd have to open it up to read the 18k gold stamp so I guess nobody ever inspected it as valuable...And its missing the winder key and the sec hand...An easy fix in my eyes....I got home and wound it up a few hours ago and its still ticking away..... Here's some pics enjoy... If you have any information youd like to add please go ahead...I dont know how to value it or appraise it...So you guys can help me out there too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreww Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Wow, nice find! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shundi Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Beautiful watch...how does it run? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 well its still ticking loudly after 3 hrs and on time I might add.... Recently serviced (8/46) LOL 52years later....still good No wonder my grandmother always says "The good ol'days." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobbieG Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Wow. What a great score. Nothing like that ever happens to me. I bet you always get the front parking spot when you go to the grocery store too? Meanwhile I would get killed by lightning on a sunny day indoors with rubber shoes on before finding a spot at the end of the first row... But seriously, nice find. Plus not every fine reguation mechanism is marked with those particular descriptions of fast and slow. So if you are ever feeling particularly stupid on one day or another you now have a watch which will call you a derogatory name just by looking at the caseback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadtorrent Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Wow. What a great score. Nothing like that ever happens to me. I bet you always get the front parking spot when you go to the grocery store too? Meanwhile I would get killed by lightning on a sunny day indoors with rubber shoes on before finding a spot at the end of the first row... I'm with you on this Rob. Mind you...I was first in line to get a score on some heart rate monitors that looked like POS...and luckily turned out to still POS but POS that were happily re-gifted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FxrAndy Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Nice find there, i never have that luck, i oftern have a look around markets and i get idiots asking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWG Technical Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Wow, great find. RG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheaton26 Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 very cool. hopefully somone can chime in with some more info! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemaniac Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Wow, great find. RG Damnit man! I go to antique shows and sift thru pocket wacthes but the sellers always know what they have. that is truly an awesome find. It just shows you the stupidity level out there. I am sure it is quite heavier than most, and man when you open that 18K basically slaps you in the face...... nice one mate! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Awesome look what I found on Christie's http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_det...bjectID=1362568 1000 British pounds! aprox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offshore Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 If you have any problems finding a second hand, give me a yell. I picked up a collectors lot of PW last week (over 200!) plus spare hands (thousand +), dials, cases, boxes of gears and wheels, etc etc. Should be something in there to suit. See if you can identify (measure) the size hand aperture required, and length of the hand. As I also got a similar lot of wristwatches in the same purchase, I will part off the PW stuff over the coming weeks, so I can concentrate on the ww! I reckon I have 6months work on the wristwatches alone. Offshore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael allen watchmaker Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 watch and case were made in switzerland around about 1890 -it has a cylinder movement-it is quite rare to find a watch of this kind that actually works as most of them have been damaged in the past -the hands are the original and extremely well made-if I were selling this watch I would be asking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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