Unless the watch is something unusual or otherwise desirable for some reason, knowledgeable collectors wouldn't have an interest in such watches. A watch like your Majestic, that is not going to be worn does not need to be overhauled. Unless you plan to wear the watch regularly and it has some sentimental value, it would probably cost more to overhaul (clean, oil and adjust) than the watch is worth, particularly if it also requires repairs and replacement parts. "Everybody else offers them, so we have to do so!")!īack to your Majestic watch. In other words, for example, a 20-year warranted cased would thereafter be marked (usually) "10 karat gold-filled" a formerly marked 25-year warranted case would be marked "14-karat gold-filled", etc., and whenever that gold-filled case wore through to the base metal (usually brass), the consumer had no protection at all! Is it any wonder why those nine prominent case makers welcomed the FTC ruling? They only offered those time guarantees to be competitive (i.e. In a full-page advertisement (p.64) in the December 1923 issue of the prominent jewelry trade magazine, the nine undersigned manufacturers of gold-filled cases agreed that, in compliance with a Federal Trade Commission ruling, all cases manufactured by them after January 1st, 1924, would not contain time guarantee stamps. Your Majestic watch is something else! It is a very basic, presumably 7-jewel movement in a gold-filled case that was warranted for 20 years, meaning that if the layer of gold wore through to the base metal during that time, the case manufacturer would have replaced it.īy the way, that 20-year time stamp guarantee does tell us that the case was not manufactured after January 1st 1924. Just about any Howard watch is probably worth restoring, unless it is in very poor condition and/or in need of extensive and expensive repairs. *My main interest is railroad pocket watches!
However, I'm all "Thommened Out"*, so I'll take a pass, at least for now, and give someone else a chance! ) Also, I see that there is yet another thread about Wittnauer wrist watches (obviously in the wrist watch forum), the movements of which were made by Thommen for Wittnauer. Just out of curiosity, I did a quick search here for Thommen and turned up about 10 pages of threads mentioning the watch mqnufacturer, and I recall contributing to some of those. The Vertex looks a little different from your watch because it is a hunting movement and also because Thommen used a number of different shapes for the plates and bridges, all variants of the same basic calibres. I don't feel like repeating myself on Thommen, so maybe you can catch the Vertex thread before it gets buried by new threads/posts.
I just discussed Thommen, albeit briefly, in a concurrent thread asking about a Vertex watch on this forum that was right after your thread until my answer bumped this to the top, temporarily of course. Wittnauer by the "Fabrique d'Horlogerie Thommen", of Waldenburg, Switzerland. Johniff, the movement of your Majestic watch was furnished to A.
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