All posts tagged: watch

Two Antique Watch Movement Cuff Links

These are two different watches, made from two different companies, but both of them are antique watch movements made during the 1930’s.  The one is from the Van Buren Watch Company and the other is from the Helbros Watches Company.  These are almost exactly the […]

Watch on Shell on Butterfly Wings as a Pin

This is a Pewter clockface, colored as antique silver, with a spring case in the center.  This is then placed on top of a Paua sea shell.  This is then attached to a set of butterfly wings.  Everything is coated in resin to make it […]

Lapel Pin Brooch Steampunk

This is a lapel pin that John Bauer has on his personal coat.  This pin has an antique, enamel coated, copper, pocket watch dial as the base. A silver colored spring case is in the center, a watch plate part is on the upper side […]

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Antique Watch in Resin Oval

An antique wrist watch movement is encased in an oval of resin.  Both sides of the movement can be seen as on one side the movement and mechanism can be seen and on the other side has the original watch dial still.  This appears to […]

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Medium Watch Movement Ring

This is a smaller watch movement from an antique pocket watch.  This piece still has the pieces and parts intact, as one can see by looking at it.  It has a coat of a thick resin forming a dome over the movement.  This is then […]

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Broken Antique Watch Ring

As is normally the case, it appears that this antique watch movement was cannibalized for some of its parts to fix a different watch.  Although the absence of that round piece enables you to see deeper into the workings of this mechanism.  The movement has […]

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Gold Shielded Bracelet with Watch

An antique bracelet was gold shielded.  This process is similar to gold plating where a think layer of gold is applier to the outside of a piece of jewelry.  The metal adjustable, gold shielded bracelet, has a gold shielded bezel which has been attached to […]

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