This watch is hot property!

crocoite · Post by **crocoite** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 2:07 am

My old family heirloom - dates back to the late 1700s...

I photographed it on the floor by our bedroom window to get plenty of light...

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 3:49 am

I really like that last image Steve, reminds me of the work of a famous, well to me famous anyway, dutch artist Hieronymous Bosch (1450?-1516) Nice time piece and good photos of it.

crocoite · Post by **crocoite** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 3:59 am

Thanks Ken!

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:01 am

Very cool pictures Steve. Interesting looking timepiece. How do you wind up the watch?

Mike B in OKlahoma · Post by **Mike B in OKlahoma** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 4:05 pm

beetleman wrote:Very cool pictures Steve. Interesting looking timepiece. How do you wind up the watch?

Betcha this is an old Key-winder. Wow!

From the title, I was looking for a photo of a watch with radium paint on the hands and numbers (and was prepared to pontificate about those, because I deal with them sometimes in my work), and I actually was thrown off for a moment by your second photo!

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 4:13 pm

Doug asked:

How do you wind up the watch?

It's self winding I bet...that means...you gotta wind it yurself!!!

Okay, I am going to log off now. The nice man in the white coat said I could go outside tomorrow if I was good.

Mike B in OKlahoma · Post by **Mike B in OKlahoma** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:02 pm

Ken Ramos wrote: Okay, I am going to log off now. The nice man in the white coat said I could go outside tomorrow if I was good.

Remember, Ken....The fork goes in your mouth, not in your eye....

crocoite · Post by **crocoite** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:47 am

beetleman wrote:Very cool pictures Steve. Interesting looking timepiece. How do you wind up the watch?

Thanks Doug. It requires a key. Unfortunately when I inherited it (when my grandmother passed away), I didn't inherit the key to go with it

crocoite · Post by **crocoite** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:49 am

Mike B in OKlahoma wrote:...and I actually was thrown off for a moment by your second photo!

Heh, heh, heh...