Thread: POCKET WATCHES

Another older thread on a topic near and dear to me. Perhaps it'll revive with exposure. Vintage and antique pocket watches are definitely worthwhile as a collecting field.




Here's ol' Sangamo. He's my favorite pocket watch around here. Aren't those just the sexiest hands you ever saw on a watch?!

I've collected vintage wrist watches for years, but always stridently avoided going down the rabbit hole that is a pocket watch collecting tangent.

I had a pawn shop owner friend and bank customer who loved pocket watches. We were both in Cleburne, Texas which was a railroad town and he liked railroad watches. He always had a batch out in his display case and best ones in the back office. This would have been in the 1980s. He talked to me about their finer points and tried to encourage me into gathering a few in.

Wished I had now, but ... could'a, should'a, would'a won't cut it. In more recent times I've gathered up mostly railroad pocket watches at gun shows, antique stores, and of course Ebay, but prices are more dear than they were at the pawn shop years ago.

I have that very same piece in my collection but with a white gold filled open face case and railroad approved. Mine is in mint condition with 17 size Sangamo Special Case. It's my pride and joy.