• Apprentice
    14 Dec 2022, 3:46 p.m.

    Hi

    I'm new to this forum and to be honest I might be in the wrong place
    altogether! My hobby is restoring watches from the WW1 period, and this is a
    watch that once belonged to a RFC pilot. Its hall marked for 1914 and has a
    fine centre second movement marked Stauffer, I've not come across a Stauffer
    movement like this before. The pin setting layout is distinctive and the only
    reference I can find is to IWC but I'm struggling to be honest so if any one
    can say either way that it is a movement that IWC used that would be great.
    Whatever the outcome is it's a really top grade watch but I would like to put
    a makers name to it.

    Gerry

    i.imgur.com/fyYYBXrl.jpg

    i.imgur.com/lHFKZxBl.jpg

    i.imgur.com/xcFCCdul.jpg

  • Connoisseur
    14 Dec 2022, 8:51 p.m.

    Stauffer, based in La-Chaux-de-Fonds and London, was the biggest watch jobber
    in London in the 1900s to 1930s. They imported numerous brands amongst them
    IWC (branded Peerless) and their own movements, the latter unbranded, branded
    Peerless, Peertone or later Atlas.

    What you got is no IWC, but one of the movements produced by Stauffer
    itselves.

    Regards

    Th. Koenig

  • Apprentice
    14 Dec 2022, 9:22 p.m.

    Thank you for your speedy reply.

    Have you seen this setting plate that holds the clutch arm in place. Like I
    said I cant find a Stauffer with an identical setting plate. I've them on
    Henry Moser watches and on IWC all beit on pocket watches.

  • Apprentice
    20 Dec 2022, 4:25 p.m.

    I found this today and again its a pocket watch but the bridges do look very
    similar even the centre second friction spring.

    i.imgur.com/cv3NbJil.jpg