Pocket Watches,Clocks,Rings,Necklaces,Jewelry Boxes etc…

Determining if you can interchange your watch band is the first step in picking out a band.The normal standard or straight strap is the one that you will  be able to interchange. Look at the picture below to see where the band connects to the watch,If it is any other type it might not be possible to change the band.

If you have your old watch band on hand and it is not to badly worn out then you will not really need to do these steps, you can cheat and look on you watch strap.

Things you will need to figure out which is the right band for you are:

1. your wrist
2. a piece of ribbon or string or a tailoring tape (flexible tape measure that is on a ribbon )
3. pen or pencil
4. piece of paper
5. ruler
6. conversion chart

the watch bands/watch straps are what hold the watch to a person’s arm, they come in many different shapes, styles,lengths,widths. They can be very expensive and flashy to the extremely cheap and plain. The most common watch band is probably the replacement watch band,and for that reason we are going to talk about a couple of different methods of dealing with the replacement watch band.

The first one is going to be on how to remove an old watch band:this is really a simple process all that your going to need is a soft surface to hold the watch so that it does not get scratched a small screw driver,tiny alan wrench or a spring bar tool.Once you have these items just put the screw driver/spring bar tool in between the lug hole and the spring bar and while at the same time pushing slightly down so that the pin becomes dislodged. After this is done just flip the watch around and follow the process for the other side.I would recomend working with the watch face away from you, so that if you miss or the tool slips it will only scratch the back of the watch not the front 

After you have gotten your old watch strap off, it is time to put the new one on. The first step that you are going to do is get a new spring bar or spring pin and slide it into the watch band slot at the end. It is best to use the buckle end of the watch band to make sure that it goes on correctly. To align your watch correctly make sure the buckle watch band is on the side that has the twelve o’ number.(other wise you will have to turn it 180′ to see what time it is) Once this is done turn the watch over an insert one end of the spring bar into one of the lug holes. After doing this use the spring bar tool to supress the other end of the spring bar so that it can be slide into the other lug hole.(be very careful and deliberately slow and precise with this movement as this is when most of the scratches come into play). Next guide the spring bar that is being pulled back by the spring bar tool into the other lug hole so that the watch band sits like you would normally see one on a watch. The final step is just slightly wiggle the watch to make sure that pin/bar sets properly.

Watch timeline

1485-Da vinci draws a Mainspring

 1505-1511-somewhere in here no one is for sure Peter Henlien created the first mobile watch,”The watch was first created in the 16th century, initially in spherical (Pomander) or cylindrical cases, when the spring driven clock was invented. These watches were at first quite big and boxy and were worn around the neck. It was not for another century that it became common to wear a watch in a pocket”

1780-Abraham Louis Breguet invents a self-winding movement

1838-Audemars invents stem winding and setting mechanism

History of the Skagen Watch: Skagen watches come from the district of Skagen,it takes its name from the region, which projects into the waters between the North Sea and the straits of Denmark. Skagen is considered the boundary between the Skagerrak (named after Skagen) and the Kattegat. At its very tip is a sandy, shifting headland known as Grenen.

There are many different watch types that Skagen makes as well as price range:Skagen Men’s Watches range in the price of $100 to $295, and they include titanium watches,swiss watches,and steel watches and have over 70 to choose from.

As many watches as there are in the mens collection there is about twenty percent more in the Skagen Women’s Watch collection. The total price range of this collection is $85 on the lowest end of the scale and $295 being the highest price on the upper end of the scale.They as well are broken into the three sections same as the mens.

Skagen Titanium Watch (Mens) there are twenty titanium watches in this collection.

price range: at the lowest end $120- at the highest end $195

*included in this section is the “Skagen mesh watch” these have the signature mesh bands, which are some of the sleekest around.

Skagen Titanium Watch (Womens) there are two titanium watches in this collection

The price range for these watches is:both of these watches are $130

*both of them are as well the mesh watches

Skagen Steel Watch (mens)-there are thirty four watches in this collection including the “20th Anniversary Limitd Edition”

price range:$100 at the lowest end-$185 at the highest end

Skagen Steel Watch (womens)-there are eighty watches in this collection

price range:$85 at the lowest end-$145 at the highest end

Skagen Swiss Watch (mens)-there are fourteen watches in this collection *includes the “chronograph” series

price range:these are by far the most expensive watches of all the collections with the lowest price starting at $175, and the ending price being $295.

Skagen Swiss Watch (womens) there ten watches in this collection

price range: same as mens

These are some beutiful watches that I found and wanted to share,All of these watches are available for purchase at pocketwatchsite.com

Rapport of London
“Oxford Range”
Skeletonized 17 Jewel Mechanical Pocket Watch

Specs:
Model RPW88
About 2 inches wide (approx 50 mm)
About 2 5/8 inches tall (about 66 mm)
About 1/2 inch thick (about 11 mm)
Premium Quality Shock Resistant Manual Wind Movement with 17 Jewels and Blued Screws
Gold Plated Steel Cover Case
Scratch Resistant Crystals
White Dial with Roman Numerals

Charles-Hubert, Paris
Mechanical Pocket Watch

This watch was made for the pocketwatchsite.com by Charles-Hubert,Paris

Specs:
Model 3843W
Just Over 2 inches (54mm) Diameter
Nearly 3/4 inch (17mm) Thick
Classic Roman Numerals
Chrome Plated Ornate Double Cover Case
Scratch Resistant Acrylic Crystals
17 Jewel “Swiss type” Shock Resistant Skeletonized Mechanical Movement

MSRP-$343.45

Bernex Swiss Made Watches

Specs:
Model bn24101
About 2 inches wide (approx 50 mm)
About 2 5/8 inches tall (about 66 mm)
About 1/2 inch thick (about 12 mm)
Shock Resistant “Incabloc” Skeletonized Swiss Unitas/ETA 6497 Manual Wind Movement with 17 Jewels
Gold Plated Open Face Case
Clear Acrylic Crystal
Roman Numerals

MSRP:$1238.95

Bernex

Jean Marcel
Heirloom Quality
Swiss Pocket Watch

Solid Sterling Silver (.925)
Floral Hunting Case

Specs:
Model 680-020-26
Approx 49 mm Diameter (nearly 2 inches),
Approx 70 mm from case bottom to bow (nearly 2 3/4 inches)
Approx 15 mm Thick (approx 9/16″)
Rare Skeletonized Shock Resistant “Incabloc” Swiss Unitas/ETA 6498 Manual Wind Movement with 17 Jewels
Solid Sterling Silver (.925) Floral Double Cover Hunting Case with Engraving Shield
Classic Roman Numerals
Domed Acrylic Crystal

The two main types of pocket watches are:

The open faced type: This is the original watch type that was around before the hunter cover type came along.It has

th the winding-stem at the top of the dial, above the ’12′ or ’3′, commonly known as ‘sidewinders’ and with the seconds sub-dial at the 6 o’clock position. As the name suggests, these watches have cases which are without a cover to protect the watch-crystal from damage. All railroad chronometers had to be of the open-face kind.

the two main comparisons of the two types is obviously the cover.
The Hunter case type: has a springed case cover that covers the open face of the pocket watch. there is usually a latch or button that is pushed to release the the hunter cover so that one is able to look to see what time it is.

other posts that concern pocket watches

Gents Watch

Abraham Louis Breguet-Swiss clock maker who invented or developed all of the following between the years of 1775-1821: many different methods on the tourbillon, re-winding mechanisms,the overcoil.Improved the automatic rotor or so-called perpetual watch.the gong-spring for repetition watches,improvement of the anchor escapement. Development of a small clock showing the time equation, the “pare-chute”,retrograde display mechanism,the Breguet spiral (flat spiral) the sympathetic pendulum,the tact watch.the tourbillon escapement,the “encreur” chronograph.

He was a Swiss clockmaker, who had his shop in Paris. He studied watchmaking in France and in England and invented different escapement methods(see above paragraph). In 1775 he founded the Breguet watchmaking firm in the Île de la Cité in Paris. He met Abraham Louis Perrelet in Switzerland and became a Master Clockmaker in 1784. A Member of the Board of Longitude in 1814. Appointed to the Board of Longitude and as chronometer-maker to the navy, he entered the French Academy of Sciences and received the Legion of Honour from the hands of Louis XVIII. In 1815 he gained an official appointment with the French Navy. Member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1816, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1819. He died in Paris in 1823.

Early enthusiasts of Breguet’s watchmaking were also Louis XVI and his Queen, Marie-Antoinette. It was one of his pocket watches called “The watch of Marie-Antoniette” which he produced for the Queen and had the most mechanical complications at that period. It was finished 4 years after Breguet’s death. Breguet designed his most remarkable piece, anticipating the wristwatch by two centuries for Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples, in 1810. Honours saluted his enormous contribution to horology. Each watch from his workshops demonstrated the latest horological improvements in an original movement, mostly fitted with lever or ruby-cylinder escapements that he perfected. Breguet took refuge in Switzerland from the excesses of the French Revolution. He returned to Paris overflowing with the ideas that produced the Breguet balance-spring, his first carriage clock (sold to Bonaparte), the sympathique clock and its dependent watch, the tact watch, and finally the tourbillon, patented in 1801.

Apart from the very start of his career, Abraham-Louis Breguet almost always used Lépine calibres, which he transformed. His watches and clocks are widely regarded as some of the most beautiful and technically-accomplished.

Louis Audemars was one of the most infulential watchmakers of the 19th century,he came up with many different complicated designs and systems for internal watch design:

Peter henlein is considered to be the maker of the very first pocket watch or portable watch. It is said that he came up with the idea for the watch while hidding out from the authorities in a convent. It is here that he came up with the idea to carry about the pocket watch on a chain like that of a pomander (ball of fruit/aromatic spices, which was usually held by a chain) you can find more information of Peter Henlein at http://www.peterhenlein.com

Just think without him we would not have the pocket watc, which would not have led to the wrist watch.

I was looking around the other day and stumbled upon some very unique watches that I just could not get over, they are to me some of the most interesting things that I hae come across in a very long time. They are watches that are made for the SteamPunk Genre.

SteamPunk is defined by wikipedia as:”is a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy”

here are some pictures of these facinating watches created by Haruo Suiekichi

here are some of the other posts about watches

gents watches

this is just a list of different watch companies
some of these are only pocket watch companies 
and some are no longer operational:

A. Lange & Sohne
Ace Acro
Adams & Perry Watch Co.
Admes
Agassiz
Alavente
Alpha
Alpina
Alsta
Alton
Altus
American Repeating Watch Co.
American Waltham
American Waltham Watch Co.
Americus
Angelus
Appleton watch Co.
Appleton, Tracy & Co.
Aramis
Arbi
Arctus
Ardath
Aristo
Arnex pocket watch company
Arsa
Asprey
Auburndale Watch Co.
Audax
Audemars Piguet
Aurora Watch Co.
Autdrist
Avalon
Avalon Watch company
B.D. Bingham
Ball
Ball Watch Co.
Bannatyne Watch Co
Baume & Mercier
Baylor
Beltone
Benedict & Burham
Benrus
Benson
Berg
Blancpain
Borel Boucheron
Boston Watch Co.
Boulevard
Bovet
Breguet
Breitling
Bucherer
Bucherer pocket watch company
Bueche-Girod
Bulova
Bulova pocket watch company
Buren
Butex
Carlton
Cartier
Cartier pocket watch company
Cawford
Central
Certina
Charles Fasoltd
Charles Hubert company
Charles hubert pocket watch company
Charles Nicolet
Cheshire Watch Co.
Chopard
Citizen pocket watch company
Clebar
Colibri pocket watch company
Concord
Condal
Continental
Cornavin
Cornell Watch Co
Coronet
Cortebert
Corum
Croton
Croton pocket watch company
Crown
Cyma
D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co.
Daynite
Delbana
Desperado pocket watch company
Deuber watch company
Diamond pocket watch company
Didisheim
Dome
Doxa
Driva
dueber pocket watch company
Dugena
Dunhill
Duodial  Ebel
E. Howard and Co.
E.F. Bowman
Eberhard
Ekegren
Electra
Elgin
Eloga
Emerson
Enicar
Eska
Eterna
Evans
Exactus
Excelsior
Fairfax
Faith
Favre Leuba
Felca
Fitchburg Watch bo.
Fontainemelon
Framont
Freeport Watch Co.
Frey
Friedli
Frodsham
Gallet
Garland
Geneve
George Reed
Germinal
Girard-Perregaux
Glashutte
Glycine
Goering
Golay
Grana
Gruen
Gruen pocket watch company
Gubelin
Guinand
Hafis
Hallmark
Hamilton
Hamilton pocket watch company
Hamilton Watch Co.
Hampden
Hampden Watch Co.
Hampton pocket watch company
Harman
Harvard
Harvel
Harwood
Haste
Hayden
Hebdomas
Helbros
Helvetia
Henda
Herman Vod der Heydt
Hermes
Hever
Hilton
Howard pocket watch company
Huguenin
Hy. Moser & Cie
Hydepark
Illinois
Illinois Watch Co.
Imperial
Imperial pocket watch company
Independent Watch Co.
Ingersol  Waterbury Columbus Watch Co.
Ingersoll pocket watch company
International
Invicta
J.E. Watch Co.
J.P.Stevens Watch Co.
Jacob Custer
Jaeger
James & Henry Pitkin
Jardur
Jean Marcel Swiss Pocket Watch Company
Jules Jurgensen
Juvenia
Kelbert
Kelek
Kelton
Kent
Kingston
Kord
Kurth
Laco
Lancaster Watch Co.
Lancel
Lang Uhr
Lavina
LeCoultre
Lemania
Leonidas
LePhare
Levrette
LIbela
Lip
Longines
Lorton
Louis
Louvig
Lucerne
Lucien Piccard
Lusina
Luther Goddard
Lyceum
Majestime pocket watch company
Manhatten Watch Co.
Mappin
Mar Nicolet
Marlys
Mars
Melrose Watch Co.
Mido
Mimo
Minerva
Monarch
Montbrilliant
Monte
Moriva
Mosart Watch Co.  New York Watch Co.
Movado
Mt. Vernon
Nashua Watch Co.
National
National Watch Co.
New England Watch Co.,
Newark Watch Co.
Newmark
Nicewatch Co.
Nicolet Watch
Niton
Nivada
Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham
Normandie
Octo
Ofair
Ogival
Ollendorff
Olma
Olympia
Omega
Opel
Orator
Orfina
Orvin
Otay Watch Co.
P. Buhre
P. Garnier
Pabro
Parker
Patek Philippe
Patria
Peoria Watch co
Perfine
Perpetual Watch Co.
Phillepe Watch Co.
PiagetPreesent
Potter Albert Watch Co.
Pronto
Provita
Pulsar pocket watch company
Rado
Rapid
Rapport London company
Record
Regina
Rembrant
Revue
Rima
Roamer
Rocail
Rock Island Watch Co.
Rockford
Rockford Watch Co.
Rolex
Rollie pocket watch company
Rolls
Rotary
Roxy
Rulon
Schultz
Seeland
Semca
Seth Thomas
Seth Thomas Watch do.
Sheffield
Shield
Sigma
Smith
South Bend
South Bend Watch Co.
Sperina
Standard
Stowa
Tavannes
Thomas Harland
thomas pocket watch company
Tiffany
Timecraft
Timex pocket watch company
Tissot
Titanium pocket watch company
Titus
Tobias pocket watch company
Tornex-Rayville
Touchon
Tourneau
Trebex
Trenton Watch do.
Turler
U.S Watch Co.
U.S. Watch Co.
Uhrenfabrik Glashutte
Ultimor
Ulysse Nardin
Unitas
Univer
Universal
Urania
Vacheron
Van Cleef & Arpels
Verno
Vulcain
W.E. Harper
Wakmann
Warren Manufacturing Co.
Warwick
Washington Watch Co.
Watch Co.
Watex
Weldon
Welsbro
Weltall
Westclox pocket watch company
Westend
Western Watch Co.
WhiteStar
Wichita Watch Co.
Wig Wag
Winton
Wittnauer
Wittnauer pocket watch company
wolf pocket watch company
Wyler
Yale
Zenith
Zentra
Zodiac

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