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Welcome.  It's a great bunch in here.

If I try and get a decent closeup of the markings on a pre-WWII Stowa ladies watch, can you decipher it for me?

It belongs to a neighbor, has a broken balance staff and will probably never live again until I get much farther into this thing...

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4 hours ago, Nucejoe said:

Hi, Welcome to the forum.

 

Thanks :)

3 hours ago, nichod said:

Welcome.  It's a great bunch in here.

If I try and get a decent closeup of the markings on a pre-WWII Stowa ladies watch, can you decipher it for me?

It belongs to a neighbor, has a broken balance staff and will probably never live again until I get much farther into this thing...

Sure, I'd be glad to help!

1 hour ago, Klassiker said:

Welcome to the forum, Max. Looks like you are in the mountains, maybe not far from me.

Thanks :) I took the pic in the swiss alps, (back when selfies were a thing) but I live in Mannheim.

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Ah.  My granddaughter and family are in the vicinity of Kaiserslautern.  Small world!

Not sure these pictures are going to be worth anything.  I thought some close up rings on the Nikon might, but NO!  This is the cheap Asian microscope shots.

They look like hand drawn images to me.  The first must be remarks about the gold content.  It may be gold, but is very small!

Second is rather poor but is a design.  Perhaps a trademark?

Third is just numbers.  I suspect a serial.

There are no other markings on the watch other than the name, Stowa, above the hands.  I'd love to know more about the piece.  My neighbor came here as a young girl after the war, her mother had the watch so it must pre-date the 40's.  

Alas, with a broken staff, I'll probably just reassemble it and give it back.  I am a long way from being able to repair such a thing.

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The world is small, that's true. I recently talked to a random girl (from Namibia) in a bar and after 5 minutes it turned out, her sister is married to my best friend from middle school.  

Concerning macro photography, try using a reverse adapter. They cost peanuts and the results are astonishingly good with my 50 mm Ai-s. Keep in mind that a manual aperture control ring on your lens is strongly recommended.

From your first picture I can see gold content notes.

14K and "0.585", which is 14 carat gold (14/24 = 0.585)

As for the others, I have no clue tbh.

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Thanks.  The original Stowa plant was destroyed in '45 from what I've read.  Probably not much info out there.

Interesting about the reverse adapter.  I would need a fully adjustable lens for that to work and wanted one anyway...  Add that to my wants/needs list.

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