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 Posted: Thu Apr 4th, 2013 10:26 am
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Hello 3T community!

I have found Armida watches site (and this forum) while looking for more information about my great-grandfathers pocket watch that I have found in his belongings. There is no information about it on the internet or not at least this specific watch, so I hoping you guys can help me resolve this little "mystery" of mine.

So, this watch seems to be made out of silver casing with engraved leafs all around it. On the back there is an engraved picture of horse rider on horse (maybe jockey), and standing near is 19th century gentleman with cylinder hat and walking stick. The numerals are roman, and hands looks like they are made of gold or at least gilded, with also golden or gilded dots all around the numbers. It also has smaller circle made for showing seconds or maybe stopwatch, I am not sure. On the inside there are two hatches, one from the clock and second one from the clock mechanism. On both hatches it is same serial number (I think it is serial number): 3075, and on the bigger, clock hatch, there looks like to be something handwritten like initials or something, but it is very unreadable: J7550. And on the mechanism it only says three words: Armida, Avance and Retard. I know that Avance and Retard means Fast and Slow on French, but then I don't know how it came here in my great-grandfathers possession, because he was from old Yugoslavia (which was on the other side of the Europe).

My great-grandfather died somewhere in 1948 of old age, which means he was young somewhere around 1900 or 1910, and presumably he bought the watch then. Those are all the information I can think of. I will also try to post some pictures, but the quality is bad... sorry for that, I don't have better camera.

I am hoping if you can at least give me some information on what year it was made, or where, or anything at least. Maybe even how much is it worth... I don't think on selling him, I just want to know how much it would cost.

Thank you in advance guys!

P.S. Also, if this topic is in wrong forum, can you please put it on the right place (I posted it here only because of "Armida"), also if you can point me to any other site that can resolve my problem, I would be very grateful!

http://s1273.photobucket.com/user/Antaishi/library/Pocket%20watch?page=1

P.S.S. I don't know how to upload more then one picture, so I will try with photobucket.

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 Posted: Thu Apr 4th, 2013 10:43 am
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welcome aboard!...Armida was an old pocket watch company which has German-Swiss lineage,but also made Russian Railroad watches....it is hard to tell what you have from the blurred pics,but it appears to be a cylinder escapement pocket watch movement from the early 1900's,case may be silver...can you take better pics?

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 Posted: Thu Apr 4th, 2013 10:56 am
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Thank you so much for that information! That could explain a lot! Maybe my great-grand father got that watch in First World War.

For better pictures, I cant promise anything, because I don't have better camera, only from my mobile phone. But, we have a professional digital camera at work, so I can ask my colleagues to take some pictures tomorrow... or maybe on Monday if we don't get the time tomorrow. Do you want to see anything specific, mechanism, casing or something else?

P.S. I remembered that I have two more pocket watches, one is Molnia from USSR, but the second I have no idea, I think its Shafhauzen casing, but I cant say anything else because it doesn't have clock hands or that front plate where numbers are, it only has casing and mechanism... maybe somebody took it for parts long time ago?

Last edited on Thu Apr 4th, 2013 11:09 am by Antaishi

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 Posted: Thu Apr 4th, 2013 05:18 pm
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Here the picture over-sharpened to see any more details show up. Not much I can do about the out-of-focus. Not much to work with.


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 Posted: Fri Apr 5th, 2013 06:06 am
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Hey guys! Guess what, I have better pictures! :D

Armida:

http://s1273.photobucket.com/user/Antaishi/library/Armida?page=1

Molnia:

http://s1273.photobucket.com/user/Antaishi/library/Molnia?page=1

Schaffhausen:

http://s1273.photobucket.com/user/Antaishi/library/Schaffhausen?page=1

Molnia is in perfect condition, I think it still works, but I don't know how to check it, it was my grandfathers watch (he was the son of my great-grandfather who had that Armida watch). Armida seems to have all parts, but one hand has fallen off, and some spring is out, you can see it on the picture, its under the glass. And at the end Schaffhausen (I think it's Schaffhausen) doesn't have glas, numbers plate, and some parts, but casing is in excellent condition... it also looks like gold, is it?

So guys, I would appreciate any information you can offer, year it was made, location, price, repairing... anything!

Thank you in advance and have a good day!

P.S. Thank you mcwright for your effort to sharpen the picture :)


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