ID on GOLD Pocket Watch and other item

[Randy769]

Any experts out there on Pocket Watches..I dug this yesterday haven't cleaned it yet other then lightly brushing it with soap and water...back is missing ...what do you think? Other piece was dug on an old road...it just looked unusual so I put it on here...any ideas

 

[creskol]

The iron thing has the architecture of a door knob assemble on which porcelain knobs were attached. However, I don't understand the iron ring. That's baffling.

 

[coinman123]

I found a similar pocket watch online, I can not see the back though. "Tiffany & Co. A fine 18k gold open face pocket watch made by Agassiz Watch Company, Switzerland. 1910.", Jonathan Snellenburg Ticks off the History of Watches and Clocks | Collectors Weekly

 

[tamrock]

I'm thinking the PW is a typical "Dollar Pocket Watch" as they call them. The higher end watches would have an enamel dial. It could be a vintage Ingersoll PW as they sold millions of those in this country. How old? it's hard to tell, cause when I was a kid they would sell these still everywhere from places like the Five & Dime stores to the gas station. I saved up enough to get a new one that cost me maybe $6.00 by then at a Texaco station on the corner of the neighborhood in the suburbs of Chicago I lived in back then. It stayed running for maybe 6 months as they where build cheap by metal stamp manufacturing.