2009年4月29日 · The last of the Ball Official Standard grade pocket watches were the Swiss-made, Record Watch Co. movements built starting in 1954. These 21-jewel, 16-size watches were the grade/caliber: 435 , If you look carefully in the space framed by the center wheel and balance rim (right below the center jewel in the picture), you can see that the number ...

2012年7月10日 · I have a Ball Official RR Standard Cleveland Ohio Pocket watch which was my grandfathers who was an engineer for SP from 1920 to 1950's. It is a Ball, ser # B652357, 23 Jewel Elinvar, 5 position adjusted which I believe was produced by Hamilton for Ball. It is in the original Keystone J Boss...

2009年8月21日 · I recently inherited a Ball Watch Co. pocket watch from my grandfather. From what I have discovered so far it is a 21J railroad watch, model 999B, from Ball Watch Co. of Cleveland Ohio with a serial number of 8546720. I also believe it has a Montgemry dial with marginal minutes, every 5th minute...

2007年11月28日 · The Ball 'B' prefix series of numbers, for 16-size watches, starts in 1896 with Waltham-Ball watches (watches made by Waltham for Ball) which run to about 1922. The 'B' prefix serial numbers are truncated Waltham serial numbers (the "millions" digits are chopped off) and do not appear to be in an ascending sequence until about 1903 with serial ...

2015年5月20日 · It was made for the Ball Watch Co. by the Hamilton Watch Co., It was based on the all-new grade 992B 16-size, 21-jewel, 3/4-plate design railroad standard watch first introduced by Hamilton in 1940, but with Ball markings and the typical Ball pattern of damaskeening consisting of concentric circles rather than the straight parallel line pattern ...

2005年9月10日 · In the 1940s and early 1950s, Hamilton made a Variation of its Well-Known 992B for Ball, marking it 999B and giving it the typical Ball damaskeening. It was sold as a Ball watch, with a Ball ORRS (Official RR Standard) dial, mounted in a Ball ORRS case. There are over 520,000 Hamilton 992Bs. There are over 27,000 Hamilton-Ball 999Bs.

2022年4月8日 · Here are three pics of my “Ball-Elgin” Commercial Standard. I posted about this watch back on Dec. 8, 2017, but as you can see, my watch does have a couple of hairlines on the dial and the Fahy’s Montauk No. 1 GF case shows some wear. As to your production figures, sounds about right.

2012年1月18日 · The initial quantities of motor barrel watches that Ball ordered from Hamilton are shown in a copy of a Ball document that Charles Medsker sent in to have published in the December 2003 NAWCC Bulletin (page 779). It shows that 250 19-jewel Official Standard watches were ordered for all four Brotherhoods, BoLE, ORC, BRT & BoLF&E. Movements with ...

2010年7月16日 · Calvin S. Ball was a jeweler and silversmith in Syracuse, NY from around 1860 to the early 1900's. Born in 1833, died after 1920. He was listed as an agent for Patek, Phillippe and Co in the 1889-90 Syracuse Directory working out of the White Memorial Building, Vanderbilt Square, Syracuse, NY.

2005年10月15日 · The LS&MS went to Ball because he was already (at that time) the General Watch Inspector for a number of railroads. Systems of watch inspection had existed since the early 1850s. Actually, Ball's system created for the LS&MS is very nearly the same as was created by C.K. Giles for the Wabash Western Railroad in 1887.