NOT SOLD (BIDDING OVER), HIGH BID WAS
300.00CAD+ applicable fees & taxes.
This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2017 Apr 30 @ 13:00UTC-5 : EST/CDT
In 1903 the Keystone Watch Case Co. bought the rights to use the prestigious Howard name on watches. Owning a watch factory in Massachusetts, the firm, referred to as Keystone-Howard by collectors, produced a line of high grade watches.
Hand Winding Movement
R.R.P. Adjsuted - Temperature & 5 Positions
21 Jewels
Size 16s
The Railroad Chronometer, Series 11 History
Keystone-Howard's Series 11 Railroad Chronometer, a 16-size, 21-jewel, railroad grade watch whose design was based upon that of a Keystone-New York Standard movement, was a value-engineered alternative to the firm's more expensive Series 10). With well over 20,000 made, the Series 11 was Howard's most popular railroad standard watch, by quite a large margin.
Its hard to determine exactly when the Series 11 was introduced. It apparently doesn't appear in any Keystone-Howard literature until 1919.
The earliest pricing that can be found is $75.00 in an April 1922 mail-order ad for L.W. Sweet. For comparison, a June 1922 Ad from the same company offered a 21-jewel Bunn Special in a 20-year case for $57.50, or a 992, also in a 20-year case, for $60.00. Both of these are a little early to be in factory cases.
All of the Series 11 Railroad Chronometers seem to have come from the factory with a single-sunk snap-on dial, either Arabic or Montgomery. There have not been reports of any of these dials bearing 13-24 hour markings (such as have been frequently seen on watches used in Canadian railway time service), nor are there reports of any Roman dials. These dials are not interchangeable with those on other 16-size, Keystone-Howard watches.
Keystone-Howard used two different barrel bridges on the Series 11, one to accommodate a recoil click, a small round click adjacent to the ratchet wheel, near the crown wheel; the other a spring click, a long, straight, bar-shaped click (appearing at the 1 o'clock and 10 o'clock positions of the ratchet wheel in the picture). Insufficient data has been collected to do more than tentatively determine how these were distributed though the runs.
Movements in the Series 11s having the highest serial numbers are damaskeened with a circular pattern.
Condition Report :
Good working condition, some small scratches
Bon fonctionnement, quelques égratignures
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2400 Ste Catherine Est, Montreal, Quebec, H2K 2J6, Canada
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