Fortis Gold Watch, 2 IH and 4 Ringer bullet

lostlake88

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Found these today. I have been on an Indian head streak lately :). Eyeballed the Fortis watch on a fairly steep hillside, seems to have a gold band on it (very heavy and shiny) :dontknow:. Further research tells me this would have been an expensive watch to buy, I am sure the owner was bummed to loose it. The bullet has 4 rings, never seen one of these before :dontknow: Thanks for looking.
 

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Iron Patch

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To bad the watch is toasted... as they always seem to be. I'd love to see how one with a real kicka$$ water resistance would hold up in the ground.
 

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:hello:

Great find :thumbsup: the Strap looks Gold, but the Case :dontknow:

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Iron Patch said:
To bad the watch is toasted... as they always seem to be. I'd love to see how one with a real kicka$$ water resistance would hold up in the ground.
Haven't you just bought one,,,why not burie it to find out ;D

SS
 

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Silver Searcher said:
Iron Patch said:
To bad the watch is toasted... as they always seem to be. I'd love to see how one with a real kicka$$ water resistance would hold up in the ground.
Haven't you just bought one,,,why not burie it to find out ;D

SS


Ok, and if that happens I'll just bill you and you can sell your Goldmaxx and pay me the other 2k in cash. ;D Deal?
 

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Iron Patch said:
Silver Searcher said:
Iron Patch said:
To bad the watch is toasted... as they always seem to be. I'd love to see how one with a real kicka$$ water resistance would hold up in the ground.
Haven't you just bought one,,,why not burie it to find out ;D

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Ok, and if that happens I'll just bill you and you can sell your Goldmaxx and pay me the other 2k in cash. ;D Deal?
Will you take buttons :D
 

Iron Patch

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Silver Searcher said:
Iron Patch said:
Silver Searcher said:
Iron Patch said:
To bad the watch is toasted... as they always seem to be. I'd love to see how one with a real kicka$$ water resistance would hold up in the ground.
Haven't you just bought one,,,why not burie it to find out ;D

SS


Ok, and if that happens I'll just bill you and you can sell your Goldmaxx and pay me the other 2k in cash. ;D Deal?
Will you take buttons :D


Absolutely! If you have enough, or the right ones! :thumbsup:
 

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Nice find on the watch, any markings on the band?
 

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Iron Patch said:
To bad the watch is toasted... as they always seem to be. I'd love to see how one with a real kicka$$ water resistance would hold up in the ground.

Dug up a Timex selfwinder in the late 70's in Vancouver. Shook it and the watch did what was intended to do, just kept on ticking. :thumbsup:
 

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pepperj said:
Iron Patch said:
To bad the watch is toasted... as they always seem to be. I'd love to see how one with a real kicka$$ water resistance would hold up in the ground.

Dug up a Timex selfwinder in the late 70's in Vancouver. Shook it and the watch did what was intended to do, just kept on ticking. :thumbsup:

Some watches these days are good to 2000m so I would hope they'd last a fairly long time. It's the dressy watches that seem to be found the most and are smoked.

My diggin but also dug a Timex (I think) Was just a surface find probably recently lost. He wore it for quite a while.
 

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Rando said:
Umm. That watch would have sold for THOUSANDS.
:o

You need to do some research on that one. If it is REAL, I would almost GUARANTEE it is solid 18k...

I have a modern titanium navigator from them and I paid 1000.00 for it..
The strap looks like the real deal :o but the case is not precious metal :-\ would they have used a steel case :dontknow:

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Rando said:
Umm. That watch would have sold for THOUSANDS.
:o

You need to do some research on that one. If it is REAL, I would almost GUARANTEE it is solid 18k...

I have a modern titanium navigator from them and I paid 1000.00 for it..
The strap looks like the real deal :o but the case is not precious metal :-\ would they have used a steel case :dontknow:

SS


It's not uncommon to mix gold and steel even on better quality watches.
 

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the bullet looks like a more modern type muzzleloader projectile..maybe from hunters in area..great find on da watch looks like the one i lost ..ha ha
 

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great finds and great pics, I can almost taste the mud. love those green IH's and that watch was a thrill to find I'm sure, congrats! :thumbsup:
 

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The back cover is probably stainless steel. My late father was a p/t watch repairer, saw many of similar backs. GREAT find !!!
 

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