Celebrating 20 years! Vintage Watchstraps. NB: This page is not a comprehensive reference of watch movements of which there are many hundreds, if not thousands. It is a small selection of otherwise unidentified old, mainly trench watch, movements that I have been able to positively identify. NB: I do not offer to identify anonymous movements. Unfortunately, if I don't recognise a movement I don't have the time to plough through catalogues trying to identify it unless it is something unusual or interesting.
The page doesn't show movements with maker's names on them, it identifies some otherwise unidentified movements found in the type of watches that I collect, which are principally First World War era men's wristwatches with 12 to 13 ligne movements. There are no modern post-WW2 watches, electrical, battery or quartz watches. The first step in identifying a movement is to determine its size.
If you don't know the size of a movement, you haven't even begun the identification process. There are thousands of different movements, many of which look very similar. Unfortunately, if I don't recognise one I don't have the time to plough through catalogues trying to identify it unless it is something unusual or interesting.
If I was tempted to have a look for a movement, without knowing its size I wouldn't even make a start. There might be a manufacturer's trademark concealed on the bottom plate under the dial, or even under one of the cocks or bridges mounted on the bottom plate as in this Mystery Movement. If you have the movement serviced, cleaned and oiled , which all mechanical movements need every few years, ask for both sides of the bottom plate to be photographed.
If you click on the pictures a bigger one should pop up in a new window. I don't mind you using these for your own personal research, but if you want to use them elsewhere such as on an internet forum, a web site, or in a publication, please read my copyright notice first and include attribution, or at least say where you got it from.
