As some of you know, I am collecting pocketwatches, IWC only.
Far from saying that my collection is a museum collection but I am proud to
have found some nice and rare pieces over time.
Some of the pocketwatches are common, easy to find on the market, sometimes in
better condition than mine, but some I have are gems.
So in these crazy times, as the museum in Schaffhausen is closed, why not open
one here on the forum.
As long as the museum is closed, I will post here daily a pocketwatch from my
collection.
I hope I don't run out of pieces before the virus is beaten. Fingers crossed
for all of us.
I will post them in a random order, with some comments, feel free to join.
Keep safe all.
DAY 35 ; cal 63
We have had an accident here in our virtual museum.
Remember this cal 52 with guilloche dial from an earlier post ?
Well, it was left in the pocket of a trouser and went with the trouser in the
washing machine and was washed at 90° C.
It came out like this :
With inside the smaller version of the cal 52, the cal 63.
Just joking, we would never leave such beauties in our pocket. But today I
present the ladies pocketwatch cal 63 with guilloche dial.
You can see that sometimes the ladies pocketwatches had the same decoration of
mens pocketwatches.
The cal 63 and the hunter sister cal 64 are sometimes found in converted
watches as wristwatches. There is still some discussion about the first
wristwatches made by IWC , but some early ones have the cal 64 ticking inside.
Cal 64 more likely since the hunter configuration has the stem at 3.
There were 20,980 of the same Calibre 63 movement made, between 1892-1919.
This cal 63 has a 14K gold case and is from 1909.
Here you see the same configuration as the cal 52.
Here a comparison with a 1 euro coin, for our US friends here, the size of
1,08 US$ today.
