As some of you know, I am collecting pocketwatches, IWC only.
Far from saying that my collection is a museum collection but I am proud to
have found some nice and rare pieces over time.
Some of the pocketwatches are common, easy to find on the market, sometimes in
better condition than mine, but some I have are gems.
So in these crazy times, as the museum in Schaffhausen is closed, why not open
one here on the forum.
As long as the museum is closed, I will post here daily a pocketwatch from my
collection.
I hope I don't run out of pieces before the virus is beaten. Fingers crossed
for all of us.
I will post them in a random order, with some comments, feel free to join.
Keep safe all.
DAY 21 :
When you speak of slim and elegant, my thoughts are going directly here to
Ralph Ehrismann, an esteemed member of this forum.
Slim and elegant as in slim and elegant of the caliber 77 pocketwatches.
Because if there is one member that can call himself Mister 77, it is Ralph.
Every weekend in this series, I am trying to post an extra special IWC
pocketwatch and this weekend, all will be around the number 7.
So today a cal 77, on of the nicest IWC pocketwatches, plenty of jewels and
most of the time in very nice gold cases.
The cal 77 was not build for a very long time in history, only between 1917
and 1921. 10500 calibers were made and most of them were shipped to the US,
where they were encased is cases called Cres-Arrow by Whiteside&Blank in
Newark, New Jersey.
The sign of cresarrow inside the cases is a C with an arrow going through. I
have 2 of these Ca77 with Cresarrow case that I will show later.
Today is a more special one for collectors, allthough the case is the less
special one of the three, it is a watch that was put in a case in Schaffhausen
and so carries the stamp Probus Scafusia in it.
Where the caliber numbers of my caliber 77 go between 726xxx and 751xxx, the
case of my Schaffhauser cal 77 has a number far away from the 700 thousands,
it has the case number 940XXX. So these calibers were put on a later date in
the cases in Schaffhausen after been made years earlier.
I found that the experts think something like 600 watches with a cal 77 have a
case that left the IWC factory.
My cal is from 1920, the case number is dated more around 1935, case is 18K
gold.
The one shown today has 21 jewels. The cal 77 came also in 15 jewels, 17 and
19. There are interesting discussions on the forum regarding a 23 jewels cal
77. You can find it here :
forum.iwc.com/t/c77-23jewels/13632/#post-8274
Not surprised the man in the lead there is Ralph.
Here is mine, but I know there are people on the forum with nice cal 77
watches too, sometimes with great stories.
Enjoy reading.
what a gift for a loyal person
with the Probus stamp
like some of these rappers, 21 jewels and missing a screw ;)
