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Hi all,

As part of a (huge..) joblot of watches I've just obtained there was included a bunch of pocket watches, about 60 of them. I know absolutely nothing about pocket watches, does anyone here? 🙂

There is the run of the mill stuff (Smiths, Ingersoll etc) but also some less common/solid silver/full hunter items too.

I'm at a bit of a loss what to do with them, other than listing them on ebay and hoping people looking at the listings know what they're looking for/at. Can anyone here shed any additional light on anything here though?

Cheers

Matt

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Matt,

I am just getting started working on pocket watches/stop watches and was about to the pull the trigger on a flea-bay listing when I found this.   If you are going to sell them shoot me a message and let me know what you want for them. I may be interested in the lot. 

 

thanks

 

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On 1/25/2022 at 12:48 PM, MattWatch said:

Hi all,

As part of a (huge..) joblot of watches I've just obtained there was included a bunch of pocket watches, about 60 of them. I know absolutely nothing about pocket watches, does anyone here? 🙂

There is the run of the mill stuff (Smiths, Ingersoll etc) but also some less common/solid silver/full hunter items too.

I'm at a bit of a loss what to do with them, other than listing them on ebay and hoping people looking at the listings know what they're looking for/at. Can anyone here shed any additional light on anything here though?

Cheers

Matt

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Screenshot_20220125-112020_Photos.jpg

Screenshot_20220125-112043_Photos.jpg

20220125_115151.jpg

20220125_115352.jpg

20220125_120548.jpg

20220125_120556.jpg

20220125_120708.jpg

20220125_120722.jpg

20220125_120730.jpg

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You've got some nice stuff there that will keep you busy for a long while, best of luck with it,,

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