RAILROAD POCKET WATCH FULL

Not to mention the fact that they were from the ground up designed with the watchmaker in mind. It's hard to argue that the 992B and 950B aren't the most reliable timekeepers ever made among the American railroad watches. It was marketed to railroaders, though, and was good enough that the PRR made a large order of this same model and grade in the late 1860s. This was made before any sort of national standards were in place.

Pictures are a plus if you have them, so I'll start this off with a very, very early railroad grade watch.

I have a few other favorites that I'll mention later. Raymonds(I'm carrying a keywind one in my pocket at the moment), although they predate the above by a fair bit.

RAILROAD POCKET WATCH FULL

I'm also rather partial to the full plate Elgin B.W. Some of the best of these have to be the Hamilton 940, and the Waltham model '92 Vanguard. So, I'm curious to hear from the railroaders(and non-railroaders) on here what your favorite 'Railroad Chronometers' are.Īlthough I'm not a railroader, I'll start by mentioning a few of my favorites: You can't help but appreciate the tremendous amount of technical marvel which goes into a mechanical watch, though. Yes, I realize that from a timekeeping standpoint, any $10 quartz watch will keep far better time. Having always been interested in trains, and in mechanical timepieces, this is a topic of considerable interest to me.

Railroad pocket watch