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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 279192, member: 25"]This is not a Tobias watch. It was made in Switzerland for the US market and is the fake Rolex of its day. Tobias was a maker of high quality English fusee lever watches in the early 19th C. and had a good reputation. The watch hopes to benefit from the reputation of a maker who stopped trading before the watch was made. It would have been made in the latter part of the 19th C. Maybe 1860 or so. The case may be low grade silver or a cupro-nickel alloy. The value would be modest, far less than a genuine Tobias watch, and I doubt if it is worth fixing if that costs any money. It may well be in working order. Despite being a knock-off of sorts, they were not badly made. Wind it up and see what happens.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 279192, member: 25"]This is not a Tobias watch. It was made in Switzerland for the US market and is the fake Rolex of its day. Tobias was a maker of high quality English fusee lever watches in the early 19th C. and had a good reputation. The watch hopes to benefit from the reputation of a maker who stopped trading before the watch was made. It would have been made in the latter part of the 19th C. Maybe 1860 or so. The case may be low grade silver or a cupro-nickel alloy. The value would be modest, far less than a genuine Tobias watch, and I doubt if it is worth fixing if that costs any money. It may well be in working order. Despite being a knock-off of sorts, they were not badly made. Wind it up and see what happens.[/QUOTE]
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