Help for Tonny’s Virtual Pocket Watch Museum

Dear Forum Members,

For 85 days, without any interruptions, we have seen incredible examples of
horological workmanship, rare movements, unsolved historic mysteries, and
intricate case or dial decorations. Hats off for keeping up with this
challenge, which has been an enjoyment for many of us!

However, Tonny's last post on the Forum sounded slightly worried as he pleaded
for the real IWC museum in Schaffhausen to re-open soon because he was running
short of new material to show.

So, in order to give him some respite - possiblty to buy more watches - , here
is a contribution to this virtual museum:

Shown here is probably the most banal, anonymous and modest IWC pocket watch,
a 1940's Cal 67 in Steel, yet with blue hands. The case is as basic as it can
be, polished stainless steel and I am to afraid to open it to show the
movement. I have no useful information whatsoever on its genealogy, nor on
its previous owners. It keeps time perfectly, of course. I have no other
pocket watch in my collection except the same one with the script logo.

Dear Tonny, hope it helps!

Enjoy your day,

Very nice pure IWC pocket watch

What a magnificent pocket watch - pure classic lines. Thanks for sharing.

Some obeservations from my side.

- From what I can see from the pictures here, the dial on the watch is really
nice, and has aged pretty well and is showing little signs of dirt, and what
we call hairline cracks (if enamel - some C.67 dials were metal dials which
are made of brass and painted over). Your dial does look original to me, and
not one that has been redone. Either way - trully classic and elequant dial.
Nice.

- Conspicious by it's absence, is the International Watch Co. logo (or any
other logo for that matter) on the dial. Well, many of you might not know
this, but, a very large percentage of the pocket watches that left
Schaffhausen, did so with a blank unlogo'd dial ! In those years it was the
habit that some retailers and high street jewelers would buy the watches for
resail from the local country wholesaler, and then either have their own logo
added locally or in fact simply sell the watch without the logo.

It was possible to order watcvhesd from Schaffhausen with our without
branding.

And a current photo of a Cal.67 with an vintage lens.

Beautiful shot Heiko, the rubies are almost vibrant! (I notice this Cal 67 is
equipped with a swan neck regulator)

Which type of vintage lens do you use?

Best regards,

Thanks for your reply.

Well, the lens is an CONTAX G 2.8/90 with an Sony E-Mount adapter and an 3
dioptries apochromatic macro glass mounted in front.

Regards

Heiko

Link to CONTAX Lens