It has every appearance of a Ball watch sold in Canada.
Ball railroad pocket watch swiss serial number#
Encyclopedia article (and looking at your pictures), Ball movement serial number B221675 can be seen to have been made for Ball by Waltham in about 1906, give or take a year or so.
Welcome to the NAWCC American Pocket Watch Message Board! Checking the references listed in the Ball Watch Co. Encyclopedia article (and from looking at your pictures), Ball movement serial number B641835 can be seen to be, as you posted, a 16-size, grade 999 Official RR Standard. Almost all of the Ball-Hamilton 999B watches used a circular damaskeening pattern, but a small number of watches were produced in late 1954 featuring a straight line damaskeening pattern. The table below is specific to the Ball-Hamilton grade 999B, which used its own sequence of serial numbers. Serial number look-up example: Let's say you have a Waltham watch with serial number 21,607,210 as shown in the photo below. So to determine when your watch was manufactured, you will need to find where your serial number fits within the range of numbers.
Ball railroad pocket watch swiss mod#
Based on the super-reliable 992B with Elinvar hairspring and mono-metallic balance, the Mod 23 adds a chronograph mechanism, making it one of the most complicated watches produced by Hamilton. Hamilton Model 23 Military Chronograph was widely used during WWII as a navigator's 'stop-watch'. Here are a few tips to find information about your pocket watch: Always input the serial number from the pocket watch movement (the 'mechanism' of the watch). The Pocket Watch Database has compiled data covering the major American pocket watch manufacturers and created an easy way to find information using the serial number on the watch movement. Very fine and exceptionally rare, 18K gold screw back and bezel, Brotherhood railroad watch.