Need help dating/valuing this watch...from the boxes!

Hello, I'm back asking for help! I hope I'm not wearing out my welcome! You've all been so helpful. Really, I'm only asking for help on one out of 50 things probably. Going through the boxes is like constantly opening presents! It's pretty cool.

I've starting to go through some boxes I'd opened before to access stuff more carefully. I can't find much on this watch. The watchmaker seems to be a good one though. It was in the collection that's been mostly from the 1910 - 1950 time period.

What I know:

Lederer face
Normandie works
Seven jewel

As always, thank you for any help!

 

Sorry for posting the photos before the text!!! More coffee please...

 

1930s or 1950s lady's pendant fob watch, very basic quality. Swiss made, almost certainly.

 

No no...that's OK !
It's the guys that post the text with no photo's .....that scratch our chiggers !

That's a cute little ladies watch !

 

Thanks for the leeway (Sipping coffee) @komokwa! I thought about switching it around and couldn't handle that either! Need to get out to the pottery studio to work on an order and am dawdling...rather do this sluething right now!

 

But isn't the studio so Zen....where you can free your mind while your hands work their magic ...?

 

Yahhh....that's it. When I'm not filling wholesale orders, it's very zen. Actually, it's even a little zen out there then too. Its a pretty nice space. I think I'm just getting old and grumpy. Semi-retired. Wanna do what I wanna do!

 

Sorry but... that lanyard doesn't look to be from the 1930s-1950s period. To my eye it looks just before/just after start of wrist watch era.

Debora

 

I'm seeing lots of references to a Lederer family in NYC in the early to mid 1900's. Sigmund Lederer has lots of patents related to watches. Normandie shows up during WWII quite a bit...

 

Thanks, @Debora. When did wristwatches come into style?

 

Looks like around the 20's wristwatches became more mainstream...post WWI?

 

Mainly military usage pre. Mass market post.

Debora

 

If it is not marked, it most likely rolled gold. (a thicker plating process).
The lanyard clips (#1) look 20s-30s. So it could have be the lanyard was not original to the watch. Also the ring (#2) is thicker.




Looking again.
The lanyard may actually be a necklace. Might be more 1900s - 20.

 

I was thinking something similar about the lanyard not being original. I kept trying to get it to hang correctly/neatly and I couldn't. I didn't notice the rings were two different sizes! There is a pretty gold watch chain in the same box. I'll check to see if that makes any sense later. The watch has such a small face, I can't imagine trying to read it if it wasn't a pendant. Although that may be my personal problem

 

I suspect the watch originally hung from a brooch.

 

This looks even worse! There are other watch chains in the boxes, but this was in the same box...thought maybe, but nooooo...

I'm liking @Ownedbybear's idea about it being on a brooch. A person would have a chance of reading it then!

 

It was quite common: a little bow brooch typically.

 

I'll look for one! Thanks!

 

The lady's ball pendant watches seem to sell OK even though they're not much of a quality watch. It would sell about the same with or without a chain.

Were it for a brooch, the face would be oriented 180 degrees differently.

 

The ones I own are oriented that way - upside down, so you can flip them up to read.