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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 205801, member: 44"]The girl may have been right. Gross might have been the *retailer*, not the watchmaker. It was common for some items of jewelry such as watches to have been made for a specific store, retailer, and marked with the retailer's name. To find the watchmaker's name, you will probably have to open the back of the watch and with a magnifying glass look for the name on the actual works. To this untrained jewelry/watches eye, the Gross watch looks like nothing special. Do wait for more knowledgeable watch people to chime in.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, what is the patent number? With the number one can look up the patent and see who filed it.</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 205801, member: 44"]The girl may have been right. Gross might have been the *retailer*, not the watchmaker. It was common for some items of jewelry such as watches to have been made for a specific store, retailer, and marked with the retailer's name. To find the watchmaker's name, you will probably have to open the back of the watch and with a magnifying glass look for the name on the actual works. To this untrained jewelry/watches eye, the Gross watch looks like nothing special. Do wait for more knowledgeable watch people to chime in. BTW, what is the patent number? With the number one can look up the patent and see who filed it. --- Susan[/QUOTE]
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