If it run proper and show you the time just put a bow on it and everything is fine. This is not a collectors ithem because during this "retro aera" of the 1970'ties they mix in a crazy way differend aeras together in one watch like the designers thought an antique watch should look. If you ever have seen a hand made case, hands and dial together with this mixture you propably see it with other eyes. On the other side they often use quite good movements and it might be a bargain. Impossible to see. Under the line: 25 for a mechanical watch you like is always okay.

Regards Silke

 

Thank you Selkin. So it may be from the 1970s? Was that a time when pocket watches became popular? (Maybe because of western movies?)

 

Within the 1970/80 ties there was a aera the pocket watch experienced a renaissance. Some guys say this wave starts again but I'm not sure. A pocket watch also has a decelerating effect. I think the fashion those days has more to do with the offshot of the invidualists and post flower power people than the italo western movies.


Regards Silke

 

Within the 1970/80 ties there was a aera the pocket watch experienced a renaissance. Some guys say this wave starts again but I'm not sure. A pocket watch also has a decelerating effect. I think the fashion those days has more to do with the offshot of the invidualists and post flower power people than the italo western movies.

Regards Silke

The term you're looking for, Silke, is "spaghetti westerns."

I agree that it wasn't the westerns that were the main cause of a brief "PW revival." Still, the pair of "music box" pocket watches - while in fact they were actually ordinary PWs, the "chime" tune was part of the score by Ennio Morricone, and added via sound editing - in For a Few Dollars More (of Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy" with Clint Eastwood) could have easily influenced potential PW buyers

 

I suspect that the OP's watch will have an Unitas 6498 inside.

As for the spaghetti western, I did a write up of that and it's watch(es) some time ago. Here it is, for anyone interested:

https://www.watchuseek.com/f11/colonel-mortimers-pocket-watch-3507578.html

Hartmut Richter

 

:-!

 

I opened it up. Still keeping good time and matching what I have on my phone.

It is inscribed "Arnex Time Co Inc.". Along with "Swiss", "Unadjusted", and "178". I've never heard of this company before. Is this a Unitas 6498?

Reason I brought up western movies is because I am a fan of Spaghetti westerns. Although I wasn't alive in the 60s/70s I do remember learning that western movies were popular in those decades. It may be a possibility as to why pocket watches were momentarily popular.

 

It's a Unitas 6498 alright.