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Waltham Riverside 16S 19J Pocket Watch - Salesmans Sample

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Found these up in a Colorado mountain town and thought that they were a really cool display pieces.  Supposedly these were salesmen's samples.  I ended up with the light background one.

I also picked up a nearly complete K&D Series 600 staking set for a good price from the guy and some other small tools.  It was worth the trek up there.

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5 minutes ago, dadistic said:

That is an absolutely fantastic find, Waltham collectors around the country are going to be jealous 🙂

 

Well, he does have that dark background one available and mentioned having another one of these in his storage unit.  Definitely a nice display piece to have.

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which interesting is yours are nicely framed and it appears to be one specific watch. Somewhere I've seen this before I think somebody on this group may have posted a picture previously.

than the Elgin watch company had something sort of similar. Not nicely framed but in cardboard boxes which have the problem of basically the effect of time and water. Then not so much one watch but more of components used to make a watch more like showing how the watch parts are made where they come from etc. the steps of making the watch.

Then if you read the text indicates is for an 18 size watch but the reality is both of these are 12 size watches.

 

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found on the inside lid is this label

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the interesting aspect is they're not exactly the same.

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