Waltham Vanguard Railroad Pocket Watch

Name: Waltham Vanguard Railroad Pocket Watch
SKU: as246a1553
Price: 395.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

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A superb, antique, gentleman's, Gold Filled, American Waltham Vanguard Pocket Watch. This is a lovely pocket watch in excellent condition, serviced and very good working order.
The top quality, Star Watch Case Company, gold filled case, is in excellent condition. The case beautifully engraved with lovely decorative engraving to the rear. Both front and rear covers screw off smoothly as they should. The inside of the rear cover stamped with the case model name trademark "Scepter" and also "Guaranteed 25 Years", so a top quality gold filled case.
The dial is in very good condition, it has the hours in Arabic numerals, with an outer chapter in smaller Arabic numerals in red for the minutes. There is a sub seconds dial at six o'clock. It is signed by the maker "Waltham" (see photo).
The rear case cover screws off to reveal the 19 jewel Waltham Vanguard movement. A very good movement, adjusted in 5 positions and complete with micro-metric regulator. It is in very good working order and has been recently serviced. It is signed by the maker "Vanguard, Waltham Mass". The serial number dating the watch to c1903.
The watch is stem wound and lever set. The time being set by screwing off the front cover and extracting the small lever located at the 6 minute mark. When the lever is extracted the hands can be set by turning the winding crown.
The watch is size 16S, it measures approximately 50mm in diameter (across the case, excluding the winding crown).
A lovely watch in superb condition, very difficult to fault in any way, it would make a great addition to any collection.

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Price

£~~395.00~~

$~~534.75~~ USA

€~~465.78~~

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