#Train pocket watch how to
I've never figured out how to interpret those, and would certainly like to hear from anyone who can.Īnother manufacturer, Endura, purchased movements from Smiths', and sold watches with commemorative or advertising dials, featuring items such as vintage cars, motorcycles, firearms, and tractors. I have two watches that have the letters and numbers A3R and AJ6 on the movements.
Some movements have similar numbers followed the the letters EM. This would be interpreted as the 8th month of 1956. Those with two digits, such as 66, 71, etc, can be interpreted to be the year produced. The numbers stamped into the movements are somewhat of a mystery. Britain," on the movement, or also the dial. Many of the Ingersoll Smith watches don't have the maker's name on them, but I've never seen one that did not say "Made in Gt. Ingersoll pulled out of the venture in 1969, so any watches dated later than that, with the distinctive Ingersoll/Smith movements, would have been produced by Smiths. They had, however, set up a British subsidiary company known as Ingersoll, LTD, which survived and is the one that merged with Smiths to set up the Anglo Saxton Watch factory.
Ingersoll USA went bankrupt way back in 1921, was purchased by Waterbury, and is now Timex. Smith did not merge with Ingersoll USA in 1946. The Smiths' Empire, shown in the watch in the quote, is basically identical to the Ingersoll Triumph. Click to expand.Realizing this is an old thread, but I have some input.