Pocket Watches; Anyone Collect/Sell/Repair?

[GunClick Rick]

Was just cleanin some of my stash







Would like to know more about this feller,who he was with and fought under

[GunClick Rick]

Good Mason one

[Dead I]

I own two or three old pocket watches.  I carry one sometimes.  Trouble is, when you buy one cheap they are usually not working and around here it costs at least $130 to repair one.

I think they are neat.  I also have two old wrist watches and one works.  They are kind of fun too.

Watches, of course, are a lot better today.  In the little western town that I was raised in we had the 12 o'clock whistle.  It'd wake the dead!  It was supposed to be the right time and we'd all set our watches and clocks to it.

[GunClick Rick]

Check coin shops at times.They get things in and will sale them cheaper if they are in the way.Got this one for 95.00
it goes ding ding ding ding when it ticks

[Dead I]

I like old pocket watches.  But they have become so expensive that I don't collect them.  I've got two that run, that weren't very expensive.  Just to get a non-runner, running, it costs about $150.

They seldom tell very good time, but that was why they had a 12 o'clock whistle.  Everyone in town could re-set their clocks and watches. 

Some where I saw, within a collection, a photo of a watch and chain that were supposed to be owned by Billy the Kid.  Now I can't find the image.  Does anyone here know where that watch is?  I'd sure like to see it

Thanks,

[Forty Rod]

I just had my Waltham reworked by an old guy in Upland.  I'd heard about him but it took me a couple of years to find him.  It always kept good time but started to run for 20 hours before running down, then 18, 15, 12, 9, and finally at Jersey Lilly it ran two solid hours and quit.  Cost me $125 to get it running again.

He cleaned it,replaced some springs (?), and a gear  that he took from his stash, and it runns almost 30hours between windings now.  I still wind it every morning, though because it feels good to do it.

[Dead I]

I just had my Waltham reworked by an old guy in Upland.  I'd heard about him but it took me a couple of years to find him.  It always kept good time but started to run for 20 hours before running down, then 18, 15, 12, 9, and finally at Jersey Lilly it ran two solid hours and quit.  Cost me $125 to get it running again.

He cleaned it,replaced some springs (?), and a gear  that he took from hi stash, and it runns almost 30hours between windings now.  I still wind it every morning, though because it feels good to do it.

My grandfather carried an old railroad watch. My brother got it.  I recall my grandfather winding it a few turns each time he looked at it. 

I wind mine once a day, when I carry them.  Now I use my cell phone for a watch. It's kind of a pocket watch isn't it?

[StrawHat]

... Now I use my cell phone for a watch. It's kind of a pocket watch isn't it?...

BLASPHEMY!!!

[Dead I]

I no longer wear a wrist watch.  I use my pocket watch and like it much better.  It is my cell phone!

Yeah, I know it's sacrilege (sp?), but it's true nevertheless.  It also has a calender in it.  The only trouble is that a cell phone is also a telephone.  My wife uses it as a leash.  She uses it as an intercom, "Hey come down here and take out the garbage".

I may go back to a wrist watch...or an antique pocket watch.

[Dr. Bob]

Dead I,

I have a cell phone, but NO wife!  But I need to be reminded to take out the trash!! 

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Reminds me of that old Bob Marley tune: 'No Woman, No Pain'.... *S*

[Dead I]

Fred Allen, the old commedian said, "Money isn't everything, I've been rich; I've been poor...I'll take rich".

I've been single; I've been married........I'll.....ah......take.......married...................I also drink.

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Jimmy Buffet has that song Margaritaville ...

In the first chorus, it is all the girl's fault.

In the second chorus, he says 'Hell, it could be my fault'.

But by the third chorus, he is saying, 'It's probly my fault'.

Same wiith me .... kinda. After the dissolution of the third marriage, I'm guessing 'It's probably my faullt'.

Wish I had the skills, but I obviously don't ... Sigh.