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 7 :
Today, a much younger pocketwatch, one of the smaller ones in my collection.
It has the cal 952 from 1967.
On day 3
there is the cal 95 to be seen, the difference between the 95 and the 952 is
the added shockresistance.
This example here is a very elegant, slim pocketwatch and wearable today with
a nice golden chain.
Inside the case you see the ref number 139, and again we have a bit of a
mystery here ; when looking in the Tolke and King book, my cal number shows as
a cal 41. The numbering at the end of the cal 41 then jumps to the cal 952,
but my cal number is lower than the first cal number in the book.
I really should ask for a extract to see where the mystery lays.
I found an old post with a picture of a ref 139 ; same case but different dial
and hands.
forum.iwc.com/t/old-referencesbefore-1974/3156/#post-236935
Here are the pictures of mine.
