Keep your pocket watch out of the sink waste disposal

[mbwatch]

Seen on eBay. This looks like it fell into a kitchen sink waste disposal or perhaps met a power lawnmower.

And yet that hairspring looks fine!

[JohnR725]

you always have to wonder if somebody was wearing the watch when the incident occurred? I once did a Hamilton 992 and around the edge on the dial side notches had been taken out almost like someone took a pair of pliers and just broke off pieces. No idea at all why that occurred and the balance bridge it got knocked out of alignment to fix the problem of the balance now rubbing on the pallet fork bridge the ground that down nice and thin. So always wondered if somebody was walking in front of a train for instance. 

 

[Nucejoe]

Thats a PIP , Poising In Place. 

[nevenbekriev]

Someone has cut the ring of the golden case for scrap and didn't care for the movement, that's all.

[oldhippy]

That is a low quality movement as you can see the train isn't jeweled. It is highly unlikely it was cased in a gold case, gold plated yes but there is no value in such cases.  

[mbwatch]

11 hours ago, JohnR725 said:

So always wondered if somebody was walking in front of a train for instance. 

Yeah as far as I know, "railroad grade" standards didn't mandate surviving impact of a locomotive.

[mbwatch]

For whatever it's worth, the dial, like the hairspring is still just about perfect. Had I not just sold a watch exactly like it but with a worse dial I would probably have bought this.

[Endeavor]

On 2/17/2024 at 2:54 PM, mbwatch said:

"railroad grade"

As OH said, and I'm sure that JohnR625 will correct me if I'm wrong; but it's not a "Railroad grade"; hence it didn't survive the impact

Edited February 18 by Endeavor