They’re real jewels like rubies, diamonds, and sapphires – the shaft of each wheel goes through this little donut shaped jewel to reduce the friction. A watch with no jewels is metal grinding on metal and pretty soon will stop. Jewels are basically bearings on the various gears. Adjustments means the watch has been specially calibrated to keep constant time regardless of how it is held, adjusted to work in the vertical position, the horizontal position, the left, right, upside down position. Goldberg: They were built to specifications required for use on the railroad, including the number of jewels and the number of adjustments. Collectors Weekly: What’s a railroad watch?ġ8 size Illinois “Bunn Special” Railroad pocket watch movement That happens with Railroad watches, if I have a 21 jewel Waltham Vanguard and I have an opportunity to buy a 23 jewel Waltham Vanguard, I might sell the 21 jewel to help pay for the 23 jewel. If I saw a better watch, I’d buy that watch and try to sell the lesser examples of it. So I’d sell those to help me buy another one I wanted. There would be two I wanted to keep, and eight that were similar to ones I already had or were not in as good condition.
I’d go to Brimfield and come home with 10 watches. When I started collecting, I had in my mind a growing list of the types of watches I wanted to buy, representative samples of various types of watches. Over the years I’ve had hundreds, but over time I’ve traded up to get better examples. Goldberg: I’d have to count, but I’d say about 40 or 50. Collectors Weekly: How many watches do you have in your collection? The Waltham name has been either acquired or stolen by various companies over the years, so sometimes you’ll see a modern, cheap battery operated watch that has a big red W on it, but that has no relation to the Waltham Company. The company itself went out of business about 1953. They made high-end Railroad watches, repeater watches that chimed on the hour, high-end chronographs, stop watches. And second, they made pretty much every type of watch, which no other American company did. There were smaller companies that made watches by hand as far back as the 1700s, but Waltham was the first American company to use the assembly line to mass-produce watches. It’s the oldest American watch company in terms of mass production. There are two things that I love about Waltham.
Goldberg: I really prefer the Waltham pocket watches, made by the American Waltham Watch Company in Waltham, Massachusetts.
“Waltham was the first American company to mass-produce watches on an assembly line.” Collectors Weekly: Who’s your favorite manufacturer? I also found watches on eBay, back when eBay was starting, the mid to late 90s, you could go on and find some good bargains. I joined the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, the NAWCC, and they had regular meetings where you could meet with other collectors and buy, sell, and trade with them. I used to go to the Brimfield Antique Show out in Western Massachusetts that happened twice a year. I find pocket watches in a variety of places, flea markets and antique shows. I love holding a little piece of history in my hands. Pretty soon they just started growing on me. A couple months later I saw another very nice antique pocket watch with a pretty dial on it, and I thought, I’m not collecting or anything, but I’ll have two. I was impressed by it, over a hundred years old and still running. I happened to find one at an antique flea market. I got started collecting pocket watches partly because I hated wearing wristwatches I used to carry my wristwatch in my pocket, so I thought why not just try getting a pocket watch. 16 size Hamilton model “992” Railroad dial
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