Silver Pocket Watch & WW1 Rosette

[R_Arn15]

My hunting buddy and me went to a couple of places we have hit before and found some cool items in the past. At the first place it was slow go for most of the time with only a tax token and plenty of junk. Then I got a decent tone on the nox that sounded like a penny so I got a little worked up because my buddy found an 1895 Indian there the last time we went. I popped it out and it was a little better than a penny! It was a WW1 era (I think) US Rosette! My first rosette so I will take any info you guys might know about this one. Then we left there and headed to the 2nd spot. Again it was slow with only a 1948 wheatie to show for me. My buddy however popped out this silver pocket watch!! This place was lived at by a local folk hero named Will Purvis on the late !800's. You can google his story and check him out. He was tried and sentenced to hang for murder but the knot slipped and he hit the ground. A second attempt was stopped by the crowd because the first time failed. The rest you can check out if you want too. If we have any watch collectors please tell me what you can about this one. I didn't try to clean the rosette. I didn't want to ruin it. Any tips would be helpful.

 

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[trdking]

appears to be an english case. There was no dial or movement? Inner dust cover? Any other markings?
Not a lot to go on here looks to be 16 _ 18 size wise

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Wildcat1750]

Nice hunt! If the watch can be opened further, without destroying it, there might be other serial numbers engraved on the movement.

 

[R_Arn15]

It did pop open he said but not much left inside. Any numbers that were there are gone. I'm gonna get him to send me pics of what it does look like inside though and I'll Post them.

 

[Hawks88]

Nice finds. Congrats

 

[CoinFetcher]

Sweet!! That’s a bucket list item for a lot of us!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice job on the relics. I like that Rosette. I found the exact same one in a field about 10 years ago.

 

[Wildcat1750]

It did pop open he said but not much left inside. Any numbers that were there are gone. I'm gonna get him to send me pics of what it does look like inside though and I'll Post them.

Looking forward to seeing them, R_Arn15!

 

[blugotti1]

great finds!!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice find, congrats!