How do you find out the serial number of a watch? The gold plated case has some tarnishing and plate loss in places as does the fob loop, the rear case has some tiny dents in places. Vintage c1900 Labrador Louis Brandt (Omega) Fahys USA Gold Plate Cased Pocket Watch In good condition though not working, the balance wheel seems to be fine so a a service is required. Is the Fahys Louis Brandt pocket watch working? The watch plant in Sag Harbor was titled ‘The Fahys Watch Case Co.’, while the firm in New York remained under the name ‘Joseph Fahys & Co.’ The corporation absorbed the Brooklyn Watch Case Company and the Alvin Manufacturing Company of New Jersey. Where was Joseph Fahys watch case company located? This item is in the category “Jewelry & Watches\Watches, Parts & Accessories\Watches\Pocket Watches”. The item “Fahys 16S 20 Year Gold Filled Leverset Swing-Out Pocket Watch Case” is in sale since Sunday, September 27, 2020. But if it doesn't open easily, don't force it or you'll break the stem.Frequently Asked Questions When is Fahys 20 year pocket watch case on sale? And don't force anything! If you try to swing the movement out and it catches partway and doesn't want to come out, try wiggling and turning the winding crown a bit to see if it will come free. Even if it's a lever-set watch, you'll be able to snap the crown out a notch if it's a swing-out case.
So the answer is simple: just be sure to pull the crown and stem out into the "setting position" before trying to swing-out the movement. To make it worse, when that happens, you'll be so upset that you won't notice the little broken stem part rolling around inside the case, and it will fall out and be lost, making it much more difficult for your watchmaker to reproduce the stem without being able to measure the broken pieces. If you force it, as many people oddly seem to believe is the right way to proceed, you will almost certainly break the stem, and then you will no longer be able to wind or set the watch. If you attempt to swing the movement up and out of the case, you will feel resistance when you start bending the stem sideways. The winding stem, which connects the winding knob (the crown) to the watch mechanism, is still engaged in the movement. Often there's a little notch opposite the hinge where you can insert a thumbnail or case-knife to lift up the movement.īut here's where most folks get in trouble. Once the bezel is removed, you'll see that the movement mounting ring is hinged, usually at the 12:00 position (sometimes at the 3:00 as in the photos below). To open a swing-out case, you first remove the front bezel and crystal, which is almost always a screw-off front. The swing-ring case was advertised as the most dust-proof and moisture-proof case of its time. The case body and back are made as one piece, so there is no separation between the case back and the case body. That's because the watch movement is mounted in a ring which is hinged to the inside of the case body. More people damage their watches trying to open swing-ring cases than any other case style. Weekly and Horological Review, March 13, 1901. I've never seen a case that wasn't a standard right-hand thread, so righty-tighy lefty-loosey applies.Ĭrescent Watch Case Company ad for Swinging If it's a screw-off back there should be no sign of a hinge attaching the back to the body. For a screw-off back, you should be able to see a seam-line that separates the back from the body of the case. Let's look at each of these in more detail: Screw-off Pocketwatch Case BackĪs the name suggests, the backs of these sorts of pocket watch cases simply unscrew. It's probably one of four most common types: a screw-off back, a snap-off back, a hinged back, or a swing-out case. If we want to open the watch case so that we can see the movement (the working parts) of the watch, then we've got to figure out what kind of case it is. This simple habit will save you from a costly case or crystal repair down the road. So to close the cover on a hunter-case watch: first depress the latch button, then close the cover with your fingers on the edge of the cover, then release the latch button. Sometimes the clearance between the case lid and the crystal is VERY small, and we've seen many a broken crystal from someone closing their hunter case with a big ol' thumb pushing down right in the middle of the case-lid.
It's also important that you don't press the cover down into the crystal of the watch.
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