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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 71584, member: 25&quot;]Early 19th C verge escapement pocket watches are not uncommon although good basic examples tend to start at around $200 now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anything unusual tends to be much more expensive. We rarely see any watches here on the forum so here is a nice one to get on with. It is unusual in having a calendar dial with separate registers for seconds, minutes, hours and days of the month. This involves some unusual variations in movement design so they are fairly rare and usually all differ in detail according to the whim of the individual maker.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cased in a gilt metal case, there is no hallmark to give a precise date but most probably this one dates from 1800 to 1810. It has a pair case, an outer and an inner case. It is still in good working order.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]18542[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Movements usually have a dust cover. Typically, just the balance cock is showing.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]18543[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Removing the cover by sliding the clip, the whole of the backplate is revealed.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]18544[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>and usually the maker&#039;s name.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]18545[/ATTACH]</p><p>Almost certainly Phineas Daniel. The outer case often included a watch paper or two to ensure a snug fit; this one has one advertising watch paper, one seems to be a goodwill message, and a pressed silver foil &#039;St. Christopher&#039; to protect the wearer.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]18546[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes you can find a full service history in the back of a pair cased watch as each time the watch was serviced, a watchpaper with the date and sometimes the cost of the service would be added.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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