The New Collector's Guide to Pocket Watches: 4th Edition
As with any specialized field, pocket watch collecting
has its own terminology, and it is not always easy for the novice collector to
understand what the “experts” are talking about.
What does it mean to say that a watch has “jewels” or
that it is “adjusted”? What is a “hunter case” watch? What’s the difference
between a railroad “grade” watch and a railroad “approved” watch? What is a
“lever set” watch? Isn’t “rolled gold” a brand of pretzel? Etc., etc., etc.
This booklet is full of all the things I wish somebody
had told me when I first started collecting, and which I have shared with many
new collectors over the years.
Keep in mind that I have tried to keep things as
simple and basic as possible for quick and easy comprehension, which
necessarily means that this is not a scholarly treatise. But hopefully this
will give you enough information to get you started and also give you a clue
what those “other” books are talking about.
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