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 53, cal 77, cresarrow case
Today the third and last cal 77 in my collection.
During this series of pocketwatches, sometimes the beauty was on the outside,
a beautiful decorated case... sometimes beauty ws found only on the inside,
the movement. But today I can show a combination of the two.
A cal 77 masterpiece in a very nice case. Top this with a special dial and
blued hands and you have a collectable watch.
This one has a 18K godl case from Cresarrow, the US case maker.
As written in a previous post, most tof the cal 77 watches were sold as
movements to the US and there encased in Cresarrow cases, some of them very
well decorated, sometimes in Greek themes.
The one shown today has 21 jewels. The cal 77 came also in 15 jewels, 17 and
19. There are interesting discussions on the forum regarding a 23 jewels cal
77 too.
This one is from 1920.
