Going Down the Rabbit Hole: American Classic RailRoad Pocket Watch | Limited Edition
Watch collecting takes you down some interesting side trails from time to time. Especially, when impulse control isn't your strong suit. It also isn't very often I buy a pocket watch that hasn't been sitting in the back of a closet for 40 years. It is pure serendipity that I ended up with this pocket watch.
It started about two weeks ago when I began looking for a pilot watch. I was deciding between a Laco Aachen and a Hamilton Khaki Aviation Pilot Day Date Auto (aka The Cooper). I eventually decided on the Hamilton, but like any watch purchase, I obsessively go back to the manufacturer's website at least a couple of hundred of times 🤓.
Now as a day job I work as a web developer so I'm in a lot of different browsers. Just so happens that on one of these browsers I end up at the generic international site homepage instead of the US site of the Cooper. Sitting gloriously on the front page was a pocket watch I instantly fell in love with.
On top of everything else it was a limited edition and it was now available for pre-order. A few hours later, after watching the YouTube promo video a couple of hundreds of times, and reading everything I could, I decided to buy the watch. Very glad I did. The enamel is amazing, it is nice and shiny, and I love the case back. Hopefully the new kid can get along well with all the old timers in the pocket watch display case 🥳
Professional hermit and a humble watch collector with a particular love of shiny things. Part of the council of Josh's.
That watch is gorgeous! I often look for a quality pocket watch that isn't a Patek selling for 100K This looks like an incredible EDC pocket watch
That watch is gorgeous! I often look for a quality pocket watch that isn't a Patek selling for 100K This looks like an incredible EDC pocket watch
Yeah that is why I jumped on this one. Tissot does a few pocket watches, but then everything else is at the very high end.
That’s amazing! My uncle has a gold filled one. 👍🏻
I was wondering when I'd see this watch after seeing their ads in my Instagram. Congratulations, and don't forget your Peaky Blinders cosplay when wearing the thing! 😛😁
I feel like there is a name for when the seconds get individual numerical indices. That and the red five second increments are the standouts here for me.
Ball makes, or at least recently made, a pocket watch, but it was a bit weird.
I feel like there is a name for when the seconds get individual numerical indices. That and the red five second increments are the standouts here for me.
Ball makes, or at least recently made, a pocket watch, but it was a bit weird.
Yeah the Ball watch just feels off. like a bunch of design ideas smashed together.
But the original vintage railroad pocket watches. USA was a leader in pocket watch manufacturing and made millions. Can be had cheap.
But the original vintage railroad pocket watches. USA was a leader in pocket watch manufacturing and made millions. Can be had cheap.
for sure. I already have some though so was nice to do something differen.
I considered it.. after all next to Rolex Hamilton is my favorite brand and I have owned several vintage and antique pocket watches. I just couldn't pull the trigger on a watch that goes for about 1,400 bucks in stainless steel I would have much preferred to have a gold filled and paid a little extra.