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 80, cal 57 , Stockholm
The watch I wanted to show today is one I bought recently. Again here on the
dial we see that someone tried to remove the dial in a non professional way
and put pressure on the dial, resulting the enamel to crack where the feed are
located. A pity, but it didn't put me of to buy it.
The watch is from 1900 and has a nice cal 57 inside. There are no markings or
inscriptions on the movement at all, nowhere the name IWC or the stamp JWC,
nothing that says IWC. Was it on demand of the dealer A. Bjorkman who put his
name on the dial ? Maybe.
It always wonders me how international the International Watch Company was
even in its early days, watches were sold all over the planet, we have here
Stockholm, but in this series we saw watches sold in Holland, in Brazil, the
US,Italy.... We know of Pallweber watches with Dutch , Spanish, English,
French, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese words on it.
When you compare these early days with now, the internet, planes,...were not
available to send out the marketing messages and the watches.
This silver cased cal 57, I bought it for the case decoration, it is an open
face, but still I call it the hunter, you will see why.
Another example of Niello silver where the black is gone. Still a nice one to
have. ( was also cheap as dirt ).
The only reference to the brand
