Many people appreciate the years of trial and error, the hard work by lantern light, the failures and triumphs, the mesmerizing patterns, the fantastic precision, and the incredible history found in these mechanical work…

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Watch hands don’t simply fall off when installed properly, but they could get snagged and break if the crystal is missing. This is especially true of the minute hand, which is the longest and sits above the others. If yo…

Aurora was another factory that half-heartedly complied with Webster Ball’s new standards in the early 1890s. Fewer than a dozen 18-size variants are known to exist in both open-face and hunter and Aurora was apparently …

Here’s an exceptional 24-jewel Hamilton 920, sent in by an excellent customer in Connecticut.

The Pennsylvania Special was a private label found in several brands, most notably Illinois and Waltham, ordered by jeweler H M Jacobson & Son of Philadelphia. Illinois made several variants in jewel counts ranging from …