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 8 :
From a small pocketwatch yesterday, to one of the bigger ones in the
collection. It is weekend, so a more special one.
The one today is a more recent pocketwatch, it was sold June 24th 1982 in
Schaffhausen.
It is one of the 49 ref 5409 in silver that were made, so pretty rare. The
5409 came also in a gold case.
The case is not that special, a big ( 55 mm ), heavy silver case with a
special pusher mechanism : push once and the front cover opens to show a
classic dial, push another time and the back cover reveals the true beauty of
the watch ; a decorated cal 9820.
I bought it with box and papers and a heavy silver chain from IWC. IWC didn't
make these , the chains were made for IWC and came with a nice IWC tag in
silver.
These cailbers were hand engraved by true artists IMO, you can keep looking at
these, quite hypnotizing.
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