Featured Revived antique pocket watch

Here's my little collection, so far.....!

 

Stunning, stracci.
And great job with the nailpolish.

 

Wow, wow, WOWWW!!!
Can’t even see the repair
I’d love to see the before if you took a pic

 

now , that's very pretty !!!!! Nice find ..

 

Before:


After:

 

Stracci, those are ALL wonderful! I can't even say which one I like best!

 

I have a hard time deciding, too.
Blue seems to have been the popular color back then. The pink was a lucky find. I'd like to get green or red next!

 

Stunning, just the right color!BRAVO

 

It's so satisfying, bringing a little bauble back to life!
I have my eye on a red enamel watch on Ebay, but it might be too far gone. The enamel has a lot of loss, and red might be a hard color to match correctly.
I've got to save them all!

 

Do you mix polishes to get the right colour?

You are a true Watch Whisperer.

 

Yes, I mix colors and add clear polish, too.
You've got to get the right level of transparency to recreate the enamel look.

 

And here's another one!
This one was listed on Ebay as "silver tone". A steal at $25.00!
Its .935 Swiss.
I had to clean it up a bit and retouch some of the numbers.
They are only 1mm high, so super tiny! I couldn't retouch the detail lines on the face. I tried using only one hair, but it wouldn't carry the paint.

 

You used your thumb nail as a palette?

 

Another super find and restore!
Love your handy palette!!!

 

I need to give them all a forever home!

 

still not worth more than those 25 $.
the stamp "argent doré" shows that it had "vermeil" surfaces originally which seems to have gone by daily use. the stamp was also of importance for the customs controls because it was treated as precious metal.
the 935 doesn't mean exact 935 but was used for watch housings to circumvent export problems especially with England. nobody would have tested the massproduced housings individually, but in this way it was certainly the religously defended 925.

 

Regardless, I still love it. I bought it for my collection, not to re-sell.

 

that's good then. I also used to buy such items for my different collections.