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<p>[QUOTE="smallaxe, post: 2432444, member: 13430"][USER=36]@evelyb30[/USER] - it still does functions perfectly.</p><p>[USER=5833]@Bronwen[/USER] - thanks for the link, that is a beautiful watch, a little earlier, and bears similarities. I think however that the Lang Antiques write-up may have some inaccuracies. I'm pretty confident the movement is not American. The watch in the link, and the one we have both bear the Geneva Seal, and from what I have read of that, the seal is a quality seal for movements made in the Canton of Geneva. I'm pretty confident that Bigelow was a retailer of imported fine watches. Tiffany also is known to have retailed an occasional Haas Neveux watch. In Europe I suspect they were retailed directly by Haas Neveux in Geneva and Paris, which would explain the name on the inner cover, making it appear they were the retailer. From what I've found, they were the maker, so I think both these watches were made by Haas Neveux & Co., not Bigelow.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a person that has collected a <a href="http://www.haasneveux.com/watches.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.haasneveux.com/watches.php" rel="nofollow">database of Haas watches</a>, which all bear a unique serial number. The number on that green watch and the number in ours put their dates around 1898 to 1900, compared to watches whose date is known, with the green watch at the earlier end of that and ours at the later end. For all the ones I've looked at from that database, it appears that each one is unique, although some may share the same movement design.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since they were nearly in the league of Patek Philippe in their time, they seem to have some collector interest, and I imagine that having the original movement is important for those folks. They garner decent prices at auction, especially the ones with extra complications, or really extraordinary external design (some are quite elaborate). They also made some that were impossibly thin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="smallaxe, post: 2432444, member: 13430"][USER=36]@evelyb30[/USER] - it still does functions perfectly. [USER=5833]@Bronwen[/USER] - thanks for the link, that is a beautiful watch, a little earlier, and bears similarities. I think however that the Lang Antiques write-up may have some inaccuracies. I'm pretty confident the movement is not American. The watch in the link, and the one we have both bear the Geneva Seal, and from what I have read of that, the seal is a quality seal for movements made in the Canton of Geneva. I'm pretty confident that Bigelow was a retailer of imported fine watches. Tiffany also is known to have retailed an occasional Haas Neveux watch. In Europe I suspect they were retailed directly by Haas Neveux in Geneva and Paris, which would explain the name on the inner cover, making it appear they were the retailer. From what I've found, they were the maker, so I think both these watches were made by Haas Neveux & Co., not Bigelow. There is a person that has collected a [URL='http://www.haasneveux.com/watches.php']database of Haas watches[/URL], which all bear a unique serial number. The number on that green watch and the number in ours put their dates around 1898 to 1900, compared to watches whose date is known, with the green watch at the earlier end of that and ours at the later end. For all the ones I've looked at from that database, it appears that each one is unique, although some may share the same movement design. Since they were nearly in the league of Patek Philippe in their time, they seem to have some collector interest, and I imagine that having the original movement is important for those folks. They garner decent prices at auction, especially the ones with extra complications, or really extraordinary external design (some are quite elaborate). They also made some that were impossibly thin.[/QUOTE]
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