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I have found Armida watches site (and this forum) while looking for more information about my great-grandfathers pocket watch that I have found in his belongings. There is no information about it on the internet or not at least this specific watch, so I hoping you guys can help me resolve this little "mystery" of mine.
So, this watch seems to be made out of silver casing with engraved leafs all around it. On the back there is an engraved picture of horse rider on horse (maybe jockey), and standing near is 19th century gentleman with cylinder hat and walking stick. The numerals are roman, and hands looks like they are made of gold or at least gilded, with also golden or gilded dots all around the numbers. It also has smaller circle made for showing seconds or maybe stopwatch, I am not sure. On the inside there are two hatches, one from the clock and second one from the clock mechanism. On both hatches it is same serial number (I think it is serial number): 3075, and on the bigger, clock hatch, there looks like to be something handwritten like initials or something, but it is very unreadable: J7550. And on the mechanism it only says three words: Armida, Avance and Retard. I know that Avance and Retard means Fast and Slow on French, but then I don't know how it came here in my great-grandfathers possession, because he was from old Yugoslavia (which was on the other side of the Europe).
My great-grandfather died somewhere in 1948 of old age, which means he was young somewhere around 1900 or 1910, and presumably he bought the watch then. Those are all the information I can think of. I will also try to post some pictures, but the quality is bad... sorry for that, I don't have better camera.
I am hoping if you can at least give me some information on what year it was made, or where, or anything at least. Maybe even how much is it worth... I don't think on selling him, I just want to know how much it would cost.
Thank you in advance guys!
P.S. Also, if this topic is in wrong forum, can you please put it on the right place (I posted it here only because of "Armida"), also if you can point me to any other site that can resolve my problem, I would be very grateful!
http://s1273.photobucket.com/user/Antaishi/library/Pocket%20watch?page=1
P.S.S. I don't know how to upload more then one picture, so I will try with photobucket.
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