Blackmore's Watch and Clock Repair (Pocketwatch info?????)

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Uploaded by on Nov 26, 2009

Anyone with any information at all as to the identity, date of manufacture, and or the approx. current value of this German built pocket watch, please post a comment to help out one of my customers. Thanking you all in advance. This is the only watch I've ever seen built in this fashion. I'm stumped!

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  • I'm no expert but it also seems to be made for a Dutch customer, text is written in Dutch on the dial/indicator very nice and rare IWC !

  • beautiful piece.

  • it is an early digital watch, a very high-end company, too. IWC is a Swiss company. the value probably is pretty nice it may be written in German but probably it is Swiss made.

  • There is an example has a silver case. Particularly noteworthy is the fact that the dial is signed "International Watch Co.", since IWC's name sometimes did not appear on dials of this model. Not all digital watches of this type were made by IWC. The patent subsequently was licensed to Cortebert and also competing systems were developed by Gedeon Thommen, Kaiser and others.

  • Pallweber watches were made by IWC from approximately 1885 to 1887. The so-called Pallweber movement is actually the Elgin II calibre. Reportedly 14,940 examples were made as the Calibre 42 (Pallweber III). A few other Pallweber movements were made by IWC as prototypes or as ladies' watches. Named after its inventor, the movement had both jump-hour and jump-minute indications...

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