However, I have done enough of this model watch to guess that it is a white enameled dial with Roman hours, closed bar minute track, subsidiary seconds dial most likely steel Spade hands and the upper dial signed in the Olde English style, “Elgin”.
FAHYS POCKET WATCH SERIAL NUMBER CODE
See History below.) There is a ‘j-420-s’ scratched into the inside of the cover, a private code put there by a watch repairman at some point in the past.ĭial – In your excitement to get the watch listed for appraisal you forgot to include a photo of the dial. The gold finish on the Monarch model was guaranteed by Fahys to last at least 20 years. (The Monarch is a gold filled case with two thin gold plates (2-4 microns thick) enclosing a base metal case. The inside of the cover is marked with the case number 633245, the makers name and model, Fahy’s Monarch model. The pendant is missing its round or oval bow (for the attachment of a chain or necklace). The fluted gilt ball pendant is placed at the three position relative to the dial (savonette) and placed opposite the case hinge. Gent’s/Ladies, Art Nouveau, size 6, 20 year gold filled, pendant wound and pendant set, savonette hunting case pocket/pendant watch, Grade 117, made by the Elgin national Watch company, Elgin, Illinois, circa 1895.Ĭase – Size 6, four leaf, gold filled hunting case pocket watch with the outer covers having circular engine turnings engraved with foliage and a house on one side with a blank area on the other for the owner’s initials. Thank you for sending in this pocket watch to for an appraisal.