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Here are two 14k with 10k fobs and an art deco un used 18k mini pocket knife/nail file.
Note: neither chains are marked but both test 14K
Notice the size of the links ( anchor chain for the QE 2) |
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I was told a lot of gold watch chains ended up as ladies necklaces.
I believe the idea started after the great war when women started to wear their deceased husbands watch chain around their neck as a sort of mourning device.
They couldn't wear the watch but they could use the chain.
From then on it started a sort of fashion which continues to this day.
Most jewellery shops have new chains that resemble or are fashioned after watch chains.
Some watch chains get altered to make them into jewellery like this one.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270541158439&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
I think the jewellery box is where a lot of them end up at least in Australia. |
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| It's Armaggedon here for chains, very hard to get the gold, unless special. Geno |
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| ronwatch wrote: | Never been to UK, maybe it's time  |
We should organise Ch 149 Research Tour to Europe to get everyone up-to-date with the European Pocket Watch Scene.
Ch 149 can pay all expenses, and I'll host a seminar in a traditional English pub. |
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| I have been to London twice and the BM and the clockmakers company museum, and one other. Fun to visit, tough to buy anything American. For my troubles I did buy one Ex rare item--a PL Auburndale split!!! (Unknown with a PL) Hooray. Yes, gorilla, all original and no need to switch! |
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| ................and the exchange makes it even worse now for Amer watches; English watches, forget it! |
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Another chain question.
I have seen a few watch chains with double or triple chains and a "slider" that can be moved up and down the chain.
Likely it is decorative but it must have had a purpose initially.
What was the "slider" for ? |
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| StephanG wrote: | Another chain question.
I have seen a few watch chains with double or triple chains and a "slider" that can be moved up and down the chain.
Likely it is decorative but it must have had a purpose initially.
What was the "slider" for ? |
I've seen these on chain necklaces, where they are used to shorten/lengthen the drop of the ncklace. I guess if a watch chain is used between two waistcoat (vest) pockets, it could be used to have that effect. |
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| MartyR wrote: | | StephanG wrote: | Another chain question.
I have seen a few watch chains with double or triple chains and a "slider" that can be moved up and down the chain.
Likely it is decorative but it must have had a purpose initially.
What was the "slider" for ? |
I've seen these on chain necklaces, where they are used to shorten/lengthen the drop of the ncklace. I guess if a watch chain is used between two waistcoat (vest) pockets, it could be used to have that effect. |
Correct on both - they did have a purpose -- to adjust the drop on a womans necklaces was common and the fashion |
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decoration for both and length for the ladies.
Long ladies sliders had various uses--doubling arond the neck, watch control, pocket or pinning on hr dress requiring one chain rather than two floating around, the "look", etc. |
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| I am assuming that the slider is what I have circled in the pic as it does slide back and forth |
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yes, a man's chain
the slider helps maintain "order" with the several strands |
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| The square item at the one end is, I think, for a picture of his mom as it contains a small frame inside. |
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SUPPORT ETHICAL PRACTICES IN HOROLOGY--Keep watches original--DO NOT PART OUT OR SWITCH POCKET WATCHES! |
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