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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 240687, member: 25"]The watch appears to be entirely original and of better than average quality but not a Railroad Grade watch. 17 jewels is good, they are all set in screwed seats, and the watch has swan-neck micro-regulation, both signs of above average quality (and higher original price).</p><p>The case is 25 year rolled gold (gold filled) which is quite a good quality as you'd expect.</p><p>I'd estimate it at around $100 give or take a bit.</p><p><br /></p><p>OP, it is a good plan when asking about a warch (and other things if inscribed) to write out all the wording, etc, that you can see when asking about the item, since it can be hard to make these details out from the pictures posted.</p><p>The watch is of fairly late manufacture, hence the luminous dial.</p><p>Dials can get damaged, but undamaged there is no way a thousand year old ceramic dial would look any different from a new one.</p><p><br /></p><p>You set the time by pulling out the winding crown.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 240687, member: 25"]The watch appears to be entirely original and of better than average quality but not a Railroad Grade watch. 17 jewels is good, they are all set in screwed seats, and the watch has swan-neck micro-regulation, both signs of above average quality (and higher original price). The case is 25 year rolled gold (gold filled) which is quite a good quality as you'd expect. I'd estimate it at around $100 give or take a bit. OP, it is a good plan when asking about a warch (and other things if inscribed) to write out all the wording, etc, that you can see when asking about the item, since it can be hard to make these details out from the pictures posted. The watch is of fairly late manufacture, hence the luminous dial. Dials can get damaged, but undamaged there is no way a thousand year old ceramic dial would look any different from a new one. You set the time by pulling out the winding crown.[/QUOTE]
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