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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 91118, member: 25"]You could indeed buy a watch with a heavy 18 carat gold case and the cheapest of movements, or a silver or rolled gold case with the finest movement, depending on your budget and priority. The various price lists from around 1900 show this clearly, most notably with Waltham watches where the quality of the movements is well known over the range, the same case could be found with anything from a Traveler to a Riverside Maximus movement in it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Luckily it usually only takes a glance at the movements to determine their quality, independently of the case material.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 91118, member: 25"]You could indeed buy a watch with a heavy 18 carat gold case and the cheapest of movements, or a silver or rolled gold case with the finest movement, depending on your budget and priority. The various price lists from around 1900 show this clearly, most notably with Waltham watches where the quality of the movements is well known over the range, the same case could be found with anything from a Traveler to a Riverside Maximus movement in it. Luckily it usually only takes a glance at the movements to determine their quality, independently of the case material.[/QUOTE]
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