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 88, Elgin I, cal 32, silver
During our series here in the virtual museum, we saw some multiple posts on
one type of movement. Sometimes because of different cases,
sometimes because different types of evolution on the same calibre, as in the
Jones.
I made already some posts about the Elgin I, cal 32's in my collection. These
come from the 1880's, are rare but by luck I found a few special ones.
I makes it also possible to see some variations in the movement made over the
years.
So far all the cal 32's came in a gold case. The one today has a silver case.
In origin with Niello, some is left, and with a kind of medaillon, like we saw
on some other pocketwatches here.
The medaiilon was maybe of gold, and was stripped for the gold value. All is
left is the presence of a few holes in the case.
Where the early cal 32 had very nice decorations on the movement, on the
balance cock, this one is very plane. Was there no more demand for expensive
pieces, or had IWC changed in strategy, trying to sell less expensive watches
? Were there two types of finish ? I don't know since I haven't seen other cal
32 with serial numbers around 227XX.
Here is the one for today, also compared with some other cal 32's.
