• 15 Jun 2020, 8:05 p.m.

    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 86, cal 73, silver

    Today, we stay with the fingerbridge movements, another cal 73 from my
    collection.

    I have a lot of these in gold, but this is the only one in silver. Wasn't
    planning to buy another cal 73, but again, the flesh is weak ;)

    And by looking at the dial, the deep blue hands and the case, I couldn't
    resist.

    Capturing the blue of the hands and not an easy task, I made a try.

  • Master
    15 Jun 2020, 8:06 p.m.

    Silver...just when I thought today I could surprise Tonny with a nice gold
    C.65 to follow up on yesterdays C. 65 Flowers post, he surprises with a silver
    cased Cal.73.

    Who would I be to challenge our moderator?

    The Watch

    The watch I share today, to compliment Tonny's C.73 is another silver cased
    pocket watch with the same movement in it. Namely, a Cal. 73 dating from 1928.

    Whilst I was not looking to add another calibre 73 to my collection, this
    watch caught my eye for a totally different reason - namely the very unique
    and different case that it is in. Ive never seen another like it. So despite
    the fact that the dial on this watch needs some serious TLC (tender love &
    care) in order to get it looking sharp again, and its missing a small part on
    the movement (more of that later), I decided to secure it.

    As I mentioned, it was this really unique case that attracted me, Here an
    original photo by the seller where you can see what I am refering to.

    A large angled front bezel and a very narrow (but still very delicately
    engraved) case edge.

    I tried this evening to capture a close up of that edge (appologies - I have
    not the skills of Hebe or Bill Barker when it comes to taking photos).

    The case back resembles that of Tonnys watch - in that it has a cartouche for
    engraving ones intitials.

    The movement is missing one part - can anyone tell what it is?

    And the best part of all is not only do Jeroen an I have that missing part
    available in the spare parts draw.....

    But as you
    seen here, I have a gold NOS replacement dial to replace that rather poor and
    tired dial in the watch with.

    This watch will be returned to future beauty as soon as Jeroen has the
    bandwidth - but for now, she is a very different and very nice example of a
    Cal.73.

  • Master
    15 Jun 2020, 9:20 p.m.

    Mark,

    I don't see the ancre or pallet fork.

    Adrian,

    (alwaysiwc)

  • Master
    15 Jun 2020, 9:22 p.m.

    Elementary my dear Watson!

    Now what about the swan neck regulator?

  • Master
    15 Jun 2020, 9:31 p.m.

    Dear Mr. Holmes,

    As well missing, as one can see the two small screw holes where the swan neck
    has been fixed.

    Thank you for pointing out, mr.Holmes.

    Sincerely yours,

    Watson.

  • Master
    16 Jun 2020, 8:31 p.m.

    beautiful watch Tonny

    And yet another Beauty in the making by MarkL and Jeroen. I cannot wait to see
    the result