🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Found in parking lot

[rickertmork]

I can’t find anything that matches this watch on the internet. Maybe i posted this before I don’t recall. I was thinking it’s gold or plated anyway maybe not.

 

[Red-Coat]

Very nice indeed. I hope your is 18K rose gold, like this one being offered at over $4,000:

IWC Large Tank Solid 18K Rose Gold Watch

For Sale is this nice IWC Large Tank 28mm*37mm Solid 18K Rose Gold WatchChampagne dial with sword hands and arabic numerals. Small Seconds at 6 O'ClockLug with 18mm.Ready to wear !Comes with IWC Travel Box. For International Buyers , any import duties applied is the responsibility of Buyer.

thewindsorjewels.com

 

[rickertmork]

There’s no gold markings I could find. I could not get the age and all the other international watches say international and co. So I’m at a dead end

 

[rickertmork]

Very nice indeed. I hope your is 18K rose gold, like this one being offered at over $4,000:

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IWC Large Tank Solid 18K Rose Gold Watch

For Sale is this nice IWC Large Tank 28mm*37mm Solid 18K Rose Gold WatchChampagne dial with sword hands and arabic numerals. Small Seconds at 6 O'ClockLug with 18mm.Ready to wear !Comes with IWC Travel Box. For International Buyers , any import duties applied is the responsibility of Buyer.

thewindsorjewels.com

Holy shot

 

[Fallrisk26]

I can’t find anything that matches this watch on the internet. Maybe i posted this before I don’t recall. I was thinking it’s gold or plated anyway maybe not.

Yes, plated, but very nice watch nonetheless my grandmother had one I think was my pop pop's to begin with... same exact one...was lost due to a burglary over a decade ago, they didn't even care to look that they actually took human remains with them

 

[Red-Coat]

There’s no gold markings I could find. I could not get the age and all the other international watches say international and co. So I’m at a dead end

That's not unusual. For most vintage 'International' watch cases in gold, the hallmarks/purity indications are on the inside of the case, not the outside.

Get a jeweller to open it up for you! Good luck.

 

[Sandog]

Looks like the band may have come from here, https://sav.hirschag.com/. German company I believe. Not necessarily the original band, though you might send them a photo to see if they supplied to that watch maker.
This watch is very similar: https://longfinewatch.com/product/v...nk-watch-ref-2799-size-case-20x32-swiss-made/

 

[Sandog]

This looks about right.

 

[rickertmork]

Well i wouldn’t be able return it to j lampert (name on the back), there would be thousands of them. So should I take it to a watch professional? You really think it’s gold ? What year do you think? What way do I turn the winder knob?

 

[rickertmork]

I accidentally cracked it open now my brother claims it’s his: what a foool

 

[rickertmork]

I accidentally cracked it open now my brother claims it’s his: what a foool

What is up with the purple gem stones son the bolts/screws on the inside

 

[ToddsPoint]

What is up with the purple gem stones son the bolts/screws on the inside

That’s a 17 jewel watch!

 

[pepperj]

What is up with the purple gem stones son the bolts/screws on the inside

Quality made watches have jewels on the movements. Hence 17 jewels. Your case is 14K.
Don't touch the mainspring!
Basically if you damaged it, scrap it.
Congratulations on the find

 

[Red-Coat]

Take a closer look at this enhancement of the marks from the inside of your watch case.

Between the ‘14K’ mark and the serial number, there’s a maker mark as a ‘crescent C with an arrow through it’. That’s the maker mark for ‘Cressarrow’ of Newark, NJ originally founded in 1890 as N.E. Whiteside & Co.

In 1903, the jeweller Henry Blank bought into the business, which then became Whiteside & Blank, eventually reorganising as Henry Blank & Co. The company continued to use the ‘’crescent C with an arrow through it’ throughout its history and was known for assembling high end watches using their own gold cases and imported movements.

So, your watch movement and case are from different makers, and the case serial number will not be in the database for the International Watch Company because it’s a Cressarrow number. Further examination of your watch may reveal the IWC movement number, enabling it to be dated.

In the Spring of 1912, Henry Blank travelled alone to Europe to conduct dealings with watch movement manufacturers in Switzerland and stone dealers in Paris, Belgium and Amsterdam. He returned on the Titanic, and survived the sinking. Cressarow serial numbers are not well documented but the earliest reference I could find to the International Watch Company supplying movements to Cresarrow for wristwatches was for case number 21039 with an IWC movement number 674272 produced in 1917. I would think your watch was probably assembled in the 1920s.

 

[rickertmork]

Quality made watches have jewels on the movements. Hence 17 jewels. Your case is 14K.
Don't touch the mainspring!
Basically if you damaged it, scrap it.
Congratulations on the find

Where is the main spring?

 

[pepperj]

Where is the main spring?

Balance wheel is the correct term-sorry.
Main spring is what you wind up.
To wind just go right then left this maintains a Balance for some reason.
That is the stem sticking out if the side of the case.
When feel a hard stop-stop!
Wind it up every day

 

[RustyGold]

It looks like the 1930’s. Just a guess based on my dad having one that was similar. Best of luck on the date.

 

[Red-Coat]

It looks like the 1930’s. Just a guess based on my dad having one that was similar. Best of luck on the date.

Looking more closely, there is actually an IWC serial number on the movement, but the photograph is too poor to reliably say what it is:

I read it as 10434?3 And, if that’s correct, the movement was made in late 1941 or early 1942:

Elite Timepieces - IWC Watch Serial Numbers

IWC watch serial numbers and production dates.

www.elitetimepieces.com

Be wary of some other sources for IWC serial numbers since they often quote the numbers for pocket watches which are not applicable to wrist watches. Henry Blank may have married the movement with one of their Cressarrow cases perhaps as much as a year or two after that. As I already said, there are no reliable records enabling Cressarrow case numbers to be dated.

 

[villagenut]

If you found it in a parking lot and it has the leather band on it, in spite of it being possible broken, it was a recent drop by someone walking through said parking lot. Unless you have thousands of J. Lambert in your town, you should be able to reunite it with its owner. For instance, where I live, there is a fellow I am acquainted with whose name is Joe Lampert...not a lot of those names in my county here in the Tampa Bay region of Florida..just sayin, I would be trying.

 

[rickertmork]

If you found it in a parking lot and it has the leather band on it, in spite of it being possible broken, it was a recent drop by someone walking through said parking lot. Unless you have thousands of J. Lambert in your town, you should be able to reunite it with its owner. For instance, where I live, there is a fellow I am acquainted with whose name is Joe Lampert...not a lot of those names in my county here in the Tampa Bay region of Florida..just sayin, I would be trying.

I actually found about where it came from, my mom said she found it in a parking lot, but my brother said he inherited from the dead grand dad, our dead granddad, he already had it appraised and knew what year it was from. So it appears my mom is a thief.