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Re: Russell style pocket watch as a Forum LE?

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For your information, Rotary do a range of pocket watches with complications and finishes that might help all of you come to a conclusion as to what to specify when the voting post is put up.
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The Rotary pocket watch is not a bad looking watch. I like the exhibition back. Not a very good website regarding photos of the watches or info about the movements etc. I like the fact that a chain is included also.
Don't care much for the gold plating as opposed to 14k or 18k gold though.
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Kip wrote:The Rotary pocket watch is not a bad looking watch. I like the exhibition back. Not a very good website regarding photos of the watches or info about the movements etc. I like the fact that a chain is included also.
Don't care much for the gold plating as opposed to 14k or 18k gold though.
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That's a good point. Plating would ware off but solid gold would be too expensive. I was thinking there might be an alternative gold-like finish that has already been used for years. I'll ask Larry about it. His pocket watch collection looks great and if they were solid gold how could he have purchased them? I wish I had the answer right now.

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Rather than solid gold ('spensive) Google up 'rolled gold' and 'gold filled' and compare them. Both are a great deal better and more durable than electro plate. They look better and 'richer', more like the solid metal, and are well established methods. I've got a Zenith handwound in rolled gold and it is very much thicker metal than plating. Might be the answer to our pocket watch... UB.. :zylinder:
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Hey Bill,

Good info, now what do you think about the exhibition back idea? Most pocket watches of the finer kind have a hinge back to view the movement, not a glass back. Would you want it to be a glass back?

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An exhibition back is glass covered by a hindged lid, same as the front.
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Uncle Bill wrote:Rather than solid gold ('spensive) Google up 'rolled gold' and 'gold filled' and compare them. Both are a great deal better and more durable than electro plate. They look better and 'richer', more like the solid metal, and are well established methods. I've got a Zenith handwound in rolled gold and it is very much thicker metal than plating. Might be the answer to our pocket watch... UB.. :zylinder:
I agree UB. Nothing wrong with gold filled. All of my gold pockets, Hamiltons, Elgins, Illinois and Russell's are gold filled from 9ct to 18ct. All are looking pretty good for being anywhere from 80 to 120 years old.
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Russ - look at Page three of this post - me talking about a glass back... thinking about it, I'm familiar with the 'press button and pop open' case backs, but perhaps this feature in the wrong hands might lead to warranty claims for mechs jammed with snot, bogies or the odd eye-lash. Perhaps within a pop-open back could be a pressed-in rim containing an inspection crystal; easily removed with a tool but not with idle fingers. That way the owner could pop open the case and admire the works, and keep out foreign bodies and small children...UB
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UB, when I have been making references to an exhibition back, I have been assuming a hunter style watch where the inner dust cover would be a sapphire crystal. I don't know about on an open face model how that would look. I guess that would be different though, I just didn't think about it.
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I guess that whichever style of case CW might eventually contemplate, he would float case designs for consideration and testing the water for customers. The only oint in the flyment may be, for all 'luxury' ventures of any kind, the recession gripping spending power in so many countries and continents in the immediate future. All sorts of companies may be careful of financial committment at the moment...UB
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The recession is one of the problems about launching a new product. You still need to do all of the work towards a product then try to catch the market at the right time.

I shall be putting a voting poll up when Hans returns.
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Uncle Bill wrote:Russ - look at Page three of this post - me talking about a glass back... thinking about it, I'm familiar with the 'press button and pop open' case backs, but perhaps this feature in the wrong hands might lead to warranty claims for mechs jammed with snot, bogies or the odd eye-lash. Perhaps within a pop-open back could be a pressed-in rim containing an inspection crystal; easily removed with a tool but not with idle fingers. That way the owner could pop open the case and admire the works, and keep out foreign bodies and small children...UB
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Good point! You do want to eliminate dust and touchy-feely fingers... :lol:

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A colleague has a Rotary pocket watch: I wouldn't say it to him, but I think it is over fussy and, dare I say it, a little gaudy? I do have a very early 20th C Omega that, in comparison, is just the job. As a C1 owner, I think it most suited to this application and agree with comments above: you have to have one in front of you to fully appreciate it. A superb piece of work.
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I'll go further: I would buy a C1 pocket watch. I don't see any other puchase on the horizon. I now have five watches, two from CW. I really don't need another - but a pocket Russell would be irresistable.
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