, I have a legit stamped Swiss made JP, Penguin and Co. NastriX pocket watch it is 17 Jewel. It keeps perfect time. I am curious to learn all I can about it. I had never knew much about vintage watches until I got this one. I can’t find much out there about it but it is stamped and legit anyone with any ideas information or could tell me anything about it. Please feel free to post back. Thank you for any help. here are a few pictures of the watch.
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I have a legit gold Nastrix pocket watch that looks different than any other Nastrix I’ve ever seen
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, I have a legit stamped Swiss made JP, Penguin and Co. NastriX pocket watch it is 17 Jewel. It keeps perfect time. I am curious to learn all I can about it. I had never knew much about vintage watches until I got this one. I can’t find much out there about it but it is stamped and legit anyone with any ideas information or could tell me anything about it. Please feel free to post back. Thank you for any help. here are a few pictures of the watch.
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Looks like a modern (if not even contemporary) pocket watch made to look really old, poorly. The very interesting thing is that the stamping and printing on this watch is notably worse than on the made in early to late 1800's ones it replicates, so much so that I'm like 90% sure the case is cast pewter (not stamped brass) and the dial printing is a simple paper transfer (not a hot stamp transfer). If I had to wager a guess, it's a $5 Chinese watch with some Swiss stamps, but I guess it could also be a really poorly made Swiss watch, potentially a last death throe of a brand during the quartz crisis in the 70's or 80's. The dial plate potentially could be from an old watch, in which case it would be a watch reassembled from an old dial modern parts.
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From what I can see, you have a good-quality Swiss-made movement that's housed in a Swiss-made case...good news!
I have a watch that's a lot like this, although I forget the name...it's tucked away somewhere. My sense is that your's dates from around the 1970's ( ? ), and that there quite a few like it. The case and dial are similar to those used on watches made 100+ years ago ( I think I saw a dial like this on a picture of a watch from the 1700's ! ), and there was and probably still is, a market for watches that harken back to long-ago days, and appeal to follks who like a mechanical pocketwatch that's a bit unusual, yet still mechanically modern and able to be worn everyday.
A nice, distinctive Swiss watch, with a good quality, middle range movement...Enjoy!
Michael.
I have a watch that's a lot like this, although I forget the name...it's tucked away somewhere. My sense is that your's dates from around the 1970's ( ? ), and that there quite a few like it. The case and dial are similar to those used on watches made 100+ years ago ( I think I saw a dial like this on a picture of a watch from the 1700's ! ), and there was and probably still is, a market for watches that harken back to long-ago days, and appeal to follks who like a mechanical pocketwatch that's a bit unusual, yet still mechanically modern and able to be worn everyday.
A nice, distinctive Swiss watch, with a good quality, middle range movement...Enjoy!
Michael.
Not sure what you meant by "legit" but the case says "base metal" on it. Most of them are just some type of white metal.. probably the reason the lids are snapped off of so many. As far as the movement.. just a common Unitas 6498, but they are very good movements. Probably made in the 1970-1980s judging by the style.. not sure if there's a way to date a 6498.
As noted this is a unitas 6498. This has shock protection so after 1950 ish up to 80's, then in 2000's they became ETA added the -1 and changed the regulators. Prior to 50's they didn't have shock protection.
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I think it says “base metal” on the case, meaning that it’s brass so some kind of copper alloy case. It just golden color, no gold inside.
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Miss Jackson if you’re Nastrix.
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So, there is nothing "off" about the watch as I suspected there might be in my original comment? I guess I did see a possibility that it's a weird quartz crisis pocket watch. The movement is a Unitas 6498 if actually Swiss, so nothing wrong there. The case however is incredibly poorly made, so much so that the ones made a 100 years ago are typically cleaner, the hands are painted and not actually blued, the print on the dial is kinda off (flat). But then again the dial plate is indeed engraved by hand or stamped with a hand engraved die exactly in the style matching those old watches.
Nope, nothing off. Very common use of a 6498 to make a manual wind pocket watch from the 70's-80s. I've seen many of these. The dial manufacturer leaves a spot for a company name. I sure if we looked hard enough we could find a different watch name stamped in that spot on another dial.
The movements are nice and sought out by folks that want to use them in wrist watches... well, at least they used to be, since lately those pocket watch sized wrist watches don't seem to be as popular.
The movements are nice and sought out by folks that want to use them in wrist watches... well, at least they used to be, since lately those pocket watch sized wrist watches don't seem to be as popular.
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Yes, the 6498 has been very common for a while, and exists in numerous licensed and unlicensed copies. I've seen many 70's to contemporary pocket watches with those, but what threw me off is the style hearkening back to the 1800's watches combined with the likely cast pewter case that looks worse than any of those stamped cases from way back. What further didn't help is that the dial plate itself has been made with 10 times the effort that went into the case and does indeed look like one of the authentic ones that were either directly hand-carved or used a hand-carved stamping die to make.
Yes, I'm familiar that it was very popular to leave a plate on the dial and even the case back (or front for hunter designs) for branding/monograms... in the 1800's... If this is an "authentic" (we're kinda stretching the definition with a direct ripoff of an old design, which is why I was thinking it could likelly be a contemporary Chinese watch - we've seen a lot of recent lazy 1:1 unimaginative replicas from Chinese factories fueled by western venture capital, notable example would be that "Invicta" jump hour and then there's the stepper motor rip off Amida sold as "California Driver" or whatever nonsense they came up with to make it sound novel) 70's watch then it has to be nothing but a "Nastrix" watch. I doubt these were that popular for brands left and tight to be vying for their lot, like was the case with those 70's jump hours that will have all kinds of brand dials for each actual movement and case model.
I gather insecure men have figured out that boiler room gauge size watches don't actually make their unremarkable... stems... look any bigger, and in fact may be counterproductive, through the power of juxtaposition, if they take the clothes off but leave the watch on. I guess there's still a trend of professional ball chasers wearing ugly oversized watches, or did Richard Mille go the way of the dodo?
Yes, I'm familiar that it was very popular to leave a plate on the dial and even the case back (or front for hunter designs) for branding/monograms... in the 1800's... If this is an "authentic" (we're kinda stretching the definition with a direct ripoff of an old design, which is why I was thinking it could likelly be a contemporary Chinese watch - we've seen a lot of recent lazy 1:1 unimaginative replicas from Chinese factories fueled by western venture capital, notable example would be that "Invicta" jump hour and then there's the stepper motor rip off Amida sold as "California Driver" or whatever nonsense they came up with to make it sound novel) 70's watch then it has to be nothing but a "Nastrix" watch. I doubt these were that popular for brands left and tight to be vying for their lot, like was the case with those 70's jump hours that will have all kinds of brand dials for each actual movement and case model.
I gather insecure men have figured out that boiler room gauge size watches don't actually make their unremarkable... stems... look any bigger, and in fact may be counterproductive, through the power of juxtaposition, if they take the clothes off but leave the watch on. I guess there's still a trend of professional ball chasers wearing ugly oversized watches, or did Richard Mille go the way of the dodo?
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