by Watch Museum | May 27, 2021 | Antique Pocket Watches
Many pocket watches state that they are “adjusted” to temperature and to a number of positions. This basically means that they have been specially calibrated to maintain the same accuracy under a variety of conditions. A watch that has been adjusted to temperature...
by Watch Museum | May 27, 2021 | Antique Pocket Watches
A watch movement mostly consists of a number of gears [called “wheels”] held in place by an upper and a lower plate. Each wheel has a central shaft [called an “arbor”] running through it, the ends of which fit into holes in the plates. If you have a metal shaft in a...
by Watch Museum | May 27, 2021 | Antique Pocket Watches
When a collector refers to an American watch’s “size,” he or she is generally referring to the diameter of the watch movement only, not the case. The same size watch movement will usually fit in a variety of different size cases, so the size of the case is usually not...
by Watch Museum | May 27, 2021 | Antique Pocket Watches
Most people think that you set a pocket watch the same way you set a wristwatch — by pulling out the winding stem. Well, that is true with many pocket watches, but by no means all of them! In fact, there are four main ways pocket watches can be set, and if you...
by Watch Museum | May 27, 2021 | Antique Pocket Watches
Most of the information crucial to identifying a particular pocket watch is inscribed on the watch movement. Different watches allow you to see the movement in different ways, however, and if you don’t realize how your watch opens up you can damage it. Pry off –...
