Men’s 1913 Waltham Crescent Street RR Pocket Watch

Among the American watch houses, the American Waltham Watch Company, or "Waltham," has one of the longest and most vivid histories. Founded in 1851 in Roxbury, Mass., the company supplied many of the watches carried during the Civil and Indian Wars of the 1870s, and along the Eastern Seaboard. They were the first to successfully manufacture watches using an assembly-line process and are credited with no less than igniting the Industrial Revolution. Their watches were widely copied throughout Switzerland and Europe and have come to symbolize a great American Horological tradition.

So much could be written about one of the greatest watch houses the world has known — American Waltham Watch Company — that one could spend a lifetime cloistered like a monk, scribing all its accomplishments. Founded in 1851, the company later known as simply "Waltham" helped formalize railroad timekeeping with its famous 16 size "Crescent Street" model — the first pocket watch in American manufactured and advertised expressly for the railroad industry.

We have the great honor of offering of Waltham's legendary "Crescent Street" pocket watches, made to satisfy the rigorous specification of an uncompromising industry. This timepiece has everything one could have hoped for in a high-grade railroad grade watch of the day: Its PERFECT "dress" dial is center-cut and seconds ground; meaning, it's double-sunk, with fully graduated outer minute register, plum-blued spade hands and classic Roman numerals.

Equally desirable is its astonishingly crisp, period-chromed case. Its Victorian scrollwork, vacant cartouche and fancy "Parlor Paper" background humbles one to silence.

Within this case is none other than an original 16 size, 21 ruby-jeweled Crescent Street railroad movement, with solid gold screw-jewel settings, solid gold train, compensated balance and "whip" regulator. The movement is as it was when it was assembled by Waltham artists and engineers: We have, of course, taken the liberty of completely cleaning, oiling and calibrating this timepiece so that it keeps time as it was intended.

Overall, this is one fine railroad-grade pocket watch — from its beautiful "dress" dial to its pristine case to its scarce, ultra high-grade movement. If you're looking for that special watch to carry much to the consternation of your friends and co-workers; or, if you're looking for the gift of a lifetime, this stunning timepiece is IT!