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I have resisted them for years, thinking they were inconvenient to use, too old and fragile to handle, and too damn expensive.
I have since changed my mind and I'll give you 5 reasons why.
1. New wristwatch prices are skyrocketing and they are bringing the vintage market along with them. The pocket watch market has remained a bit more sane and stable, and great watches under $500 are all over the place.
2. They are examples of an American made product that was truly the finest of its kind (USA! USA!! USA!!)
3. Most of them are truly vintage watches.....even antiques....and running examples are not hard to find. I find it very cool to own a 100 year old watch that runs more accurately than my new Seikos and hangs right in there with most of my Swiss colleciton.
4. Pocket watch companies kept good records, there were only a few of them and it is easy to date and identify almost any high grade pocket watch.
5. The movements!!! It's true that railroad watches offer hardly any variation in general design, but the movements are spectacular. You like decorated movements?
Good luck finding a modern wristwatch with a decorated movement for under $1000. In the pocket watch world, the movements are ALL decorated...and most of them very elaborately.
Truly, pocket watches are best appreciated with the back open or off.
So far I only own two of them, but I plan on going crazy in the near future.
Anybody else own any?