After a clean and a new hour hand it was back for filming a few days later. The red dust had been applied because someone had decided that the watch looked "too good" and so they had "aged it". To keep shooting (presumably not a close up of the watch!) the hour hand had been glued onto the face. Having spoken to the young man (not one of the cast) who had been on set, he said he could not work out how to change the time so he had opened the front and tried to turn the hands and the hour hand had broken off. The following January I got a call saying there was a problem with the watch and could I fix it, the watch duly arrived and in a bit of a state as can be seen from the picture below. It did not completely conform to the brief but they were unconcerned, partly as I found out a couple of months later, because the film was actually Wonder Woman and the brief had not been entirely accurate. It is the time of year for movie previews so here is mine! With a few bits left out so that it will not be a spoiler.īack in September 2015 I received a query from the props buyer for a film in pre-production under the title "The Nightingale" after a briefing I was asked for recommendations for an appropriate watch that would be quite prominent in the film .Īfter considering the options over several weeks they purchased a rather more expensive Waltham 1908-640 than the ones I had recommended because they liked the look of it. At the time of writing this watch is for sale from my website at £2,600. In a 20 year, Filled gold case and with the standard dial the retail value in the US is between $2,000 and $3,500, about the same or a bit more in pounds in the UK.Ī full set of very high resolution pictures of this watch can be found here on Zenfolio. Some finding, but these are fragile dials and this one is almost as good as it Its own right, there are a couple of very faint cracks in the glaze that take The "fancy" dial on this example is a collectors item in The serial number shows that this one was made between April and June 1893. The train is gold asĪre the top jewel settings and balance screws, it is adjusted for temperature, Sapphire jewels, a Swiss lever escapement with a Breguet sprung cut compensatedīalance with double roller and a "tadpole" micro adjuster. The size 16, split plate movement has 19 "Extra Fine" Ruby and It gains 3 stars for rarity in the price guide - and they are pretty Sought after than the Riverside Maximus which later replaced it as the top 1888
This is an exceptionally rare watch, one of the top watches of its day and now even more This is one of a series of posts illustrating the main grades of Waltham size 16 watches, in this case the 1888-American Watch Co.
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