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This was part of my recent estate buy.

I had to turn a new staff and the standard COA.

They call this a "dollar watch" but seems a step up from that. Jeweled escapement and a ceramic dial with nicely blued hands.

 

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34 minutes ago, LittleWatchShop said:

They call this a "dollar watch" but seems a step up from that.

Indeed - the Reliance model was Ingersoll's "real" watch with 7 jewels. The Yankee, Midget, and I can't think of which other name are the true dollar watches with pin pallets and basically scaled down clock movements. It looks like you have real balance screws too, whereas the dollar balances are just stamped brass with metal protrusions that give the appearance of balance timing screws. I suppose you could shave them to poise but you can't add weight.

Did this one have "lantern pinions" on the train? I just learned this term today and was eager to use it. I guess I would be pretty surprised if they used such a low end feature on their "good" watch.

And did you determine its BPH? Their dollar watches are slow, 14400 if I recall.

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1 hour ago, LittleWatchShop said:

Never seen a dial with threaded bosses

Oh yeah those brass bosses pressed out the bottom of the dial. The cheaper ones had paper dials glued to brass. Is this one like that too, or a better quality dial? 

 

Nice thing about the Reliance is there are parts out there. It's possible to find the specific mainspring for those while the other Ingersoll watches don't seem to have a real supply of spares. Why would they though.

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@RichardHarris123 I am guessing he means something like the inverse of this one, which was a "Swiss-Anglo Watch Co" dollar watch. The dial had threaded holes to screw onto these case bosses and I can imagine it being done the opposite way too.Screenshot_20250328-164850.png.392a511c06cf1dd1812ad11f4e894e2b.png

 

Oh here is the back side of a Reliance dial on an auction...Screenshot_20250328-165305.thumb.png.90632ef9c1874bace2784c1056f48f3f.png

And yet another which is probably the type in question

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