Featured filigree bracelet watch

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Hi,
I would replace the watch with a nice large amethyst. Would make a stunning bracelet. Or even even a Canadian jade piece. Unfortunately ladies watches do not bring the money that mens watches bring. It is a really wonderful piece.
greg

 

No, absolutely don't force it. Sometimes hands become loose & that's an easy fix. Something more obviously needed.

I like it very much & don't care whether or not it is technically filigree. Lattice work, maybe. I don't see it in their catalogue now, but for some years the Met had a similar bracelet in a line of French deco items.

Is the interior circumference about 7". If it's smaller, maybe we should talk. I have a wonder working watch repair guy & small wrists. Not like I need a single watch more!

 

I'm with Blooey as to the 1920's but the band is most likely die struck. If the info on the works is to be believed, than it is a quality movement. Fifteen jewels with three adjustments is great. If the stem only winds and you can't pull it out to set the time I recommend that you check it out with a pocket watch repair man as it might be a simple fix. Definitely worth the trouble.

 

Particularly in a ladies watch. Perhaps due to their small size, or maybe the notion that for a woman a watch is an accessory, not a timepiece, they seem often not to have as many jewels & adjustments as watches for men.

 

Lovely watch. I'd wear that, very nice.

 

it's definitely not a quality movement, but a movement assembled by unknown US watchmakers. the real stuff is not marked with "blabla applied for". the jewels are of miserable quality most probably, and the high quality Swiss brands sent their own watchmakers over for quality control and repairs in those years; same for Russia, China etc.

 

It's a type of pierced work that was popular in the USA and probably elsewhere in the 1920s and into the early 30s. It showed up in base metals, sterling, and gold, all white metal. As far as I know it all came out of the North Attleboro area. Pins and bracelets are common, but I've never seen a watch before. That might help sell it.

 

Yes evelyb30, correct, the maker is Bliss brothers Co from North Attleboro in Massachusetts.
Looked at some of the work they did online, this remains quite atypical from their usual fare.
That thing needs a cleanup on the inside of the band, green spots and dirt, sure it was not worn for a long time .

 

Just checked the inner diameter of the band is 6.75".

 

Interior circumference rather than diameter, but whatever. That's not a tiny size; I could probably wear it.

 

Yup....My bad, circumference it is .

 

Knew what you meant. The band is oval, not round, right? Oval bracelets don't roll as much as round ones. Would be comfortably loose on me but not roll, I think. I always have to have links taken out of watch bracelets in new/original condition. Have some nice watches bought on the cheap because strap or band too small for most. I'm not a tiny person, just what used to be called 'fine boned'.

 

Finaly...she got a new heart...ticking this time with a modern quartz Movement.
Cleaned the bracelet up a bit also,happy with the results but i miss the old innards and the sweet sounds she pounded from her Bijou Frame.
Just got to change the battery once in a while from now on, she is still such a pretty lass.
Jeweler felt uncomfortable telling me she was made of steel because it was perhaps not very noble, Would any one chime in, methinks she is chrome plated..
I know Chrome plating started to get used around the mid 20's industrially, when did it start getting used on Jewerly if anyone here knows ? think i have a date of 1928 on this, patent number 1752128.

 

Hi,
What a beauty!!!! I still think a very large emerald would look better.
greg

 

I might stir in that direction...a large centerpiece stone of some kind

 

Looking good!

 

Thanks Bronwen, she is shining very nicely now,,, Bling! Bling!!