Antique Waltham Silver Full Hunter Pocket Watch, 1888.

Antique Waltham silver full hunter pocket watch, 1888.

The watch has a good quality grade 25 15-jewel adjusted stem-winding movement which is working nicely. The movement has a Church 1885 patent regulator, nickel plates and a Breguet hairspring. The movement is fully signed and it has the serial number 3,362,342 which dates it back to 1888. The movement is protected by an inner hinged cover.

The watch measures 58mm diameter excluding the winding stem and the loop. The case is coin silver, a silver alloy, typically 90% silver and 10% copper, and the design is the Leader grade from the Keystone Watch Case Company. The case is decorated to both the front and back, and there is a vacant cartouche to the front, and it also has rose gold filled hinges.

The winding crown pushes in to release the front cover. Inside, there is a glass lens which is in lovely condition (some natural light reflection showing in the photos).

The dial is signed with the early American Waltham Watch Company logo, lever set blued steel hands, a subsidiary seconds dial and outer minute track. There is a short faint hairline just above the subsidiary dial but it is very faint.

The watch comes in a new presentation box.

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