Luxury Pocket Watches

The Gold Pocket Watch Blog located another watch of beauty for your viewing, just amazing at the number of intricate pocket watches still around and ticking fine.    

The advent of men’s pocket watches came about for men to be able to tell the time wherever they were. Some were dress pocket watches and some were regular. The regular watches also had designs but they were austere. These pocket watches came from different countries so the movements were different and so were the designs in the dress pocket watches. Each one represented the country where they were from.They were designed by individual jewelers to compete with other jewelers as to who could come up with a better design.

Luxury Pocket Watches

Hamilton Railroad Vintage Pocket Watch

The Gold Pocket Watch Blog brings you the Hamilton Railroad Vintage Pocket Watch. Listen closely very intricate details.

Hampden Pocket Watch

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Today I would like to share a video of a beautiful 1894 Hampden pocket watch, Hunter case size 6 11 jewels. The video shows all of the features of the pocket watch. Quite old but a thing of beauty.

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Lincoln's Pocket Watch

On the Gold Pocket Watch Blog I came across a very interesting bit of history I would like to share.

This week, a stunning find unveiled a personal record that touched the highest levels of government but remained hidden for nearly a century and a half.

On April 13, 1861, Irish immigrant and watchmaker Jonathan Dillon, working for the M.W. Galt and Co. jewelers in Washington, D.C., was repairing President Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch, when he heard of the attack. Forty-five years later, Dillon told the New York Times what he did that day.

"I was in the act of screwing on the dial when Mr. Galt announced the news. I unscrewed the dial, and with a sharp instrument wrote on the metal beneath: ‘The first gun is fired. Slavery is dead. Thank God we have a President who at least will try.'"

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Lincolns-Pocket-Watch-Reveals-Long-Hidden-Message.html#ixzz0x6iT4ktc