Great piece for restoration. No movement stem or crystal. Very nice multicolor case it measures to a 3/0s size. Some hinges will need tightening. The crystal bezel seems to have a split.

OFFERED WITH NO RESERVE 1894, ILLINOIS, 6-SIZE, MODEL 1, GRADE 140-S, IN A BEAUTIFUL MULTICOLOR, C. GOLD FILLED (yellow, white, green, pink/rose, gold) HUNTING CASE WITH LEAVES AND FLOWERS WOW WHAT A NICE WATCH LOOK AT THE PICTURES! RUNNING STRONG KEEPING GOOD TIME! This watch was made for F. Kempel, Oregon Ill and is signed as such on both the movement and the dial. This is called a jobbers watch and they are very collectable. 122 year old MULTICOLOR ILLINOIS POCKET WATCH IN VERY NICE CONDITION – NO DINGS OR DENTS EXCELLENT HINGES AND COVERS SHOW NORMAL WEAR BUT NO WEAR TO BRASS! THESE MULTICOLOR HUNTING CASE POCKET WATCH ARE SOME OF THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER AND BEAUTIFUL EVER MADE – GOOD LUCK! THE WATCH WINDS SMOOTH AND IS RUNNING STRONG AND A GOOD TIME KEEPER, IT IS STEM WIND AND LEVER SET – SERIAL NUMBER 1,249,698, WHICH PUTS PRODUCTION IN 1894 BEAUTIFUL GILT MODEL 1 MOVEMENT MARKED F. KEMPEL OREGON, ILL (signed exactly like the dial) THE MULTICOLOR CASE IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION NO WEAR TO BRASS, A COUPLE LIGHT SHALLOW DINGS ON THE CASE BACK YOU HAVE TO GET THE WATCH IN THE RIGHT LIGHT TO SEE, THE FRONT COVER OPENS JUST A HAIR PAST 90 DEGREES. THE SINGLE SUNKEN F. KEMPEL OREGON ILL SIGNED PORCELAIN DIAL IS MINT NO HAIRLINES. SOMEONE IS GOING TO BE VERY PLEASED. THIS WILL MAKE A FINE ADDITION TO ANY FINE POCKET WATCH COLLECTION AND THE CENTERPIECE OF MANY! THIS IS ONE OF A DOZEN OR SO INCREDIBLE SOLID 14 AND 18k GOLD HUNTING CASE WATCHES I WILL BE OFFERING OVER THE NEXT FOUR WEEKS SO CHECK MY AUCTIONS! If you like what you see, bookmark my listing and Ill bring you more each week! SUPER COLLECTABLE RARE OPPORTUNITY! The item “BEAUTIFUL 1894 MULTICOLOR GOLD HUNTING CASE ILLINOIS POCKET WATCH! 5 COLORS GOLD” is in sale since Tuesday, December 27, 2016. This item is in the category “Jewelry & Watches\Watches, Parts & Accessories\Pocket Watches\Antique”. The seller is “bonedirect” and is located in Loomis, California. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Material: 14-KARAT GOLD FILLED
• Brand: ILLINOIS WATCH COMPANY
• Year of Manufacture: 1880-1889
• Closure: HUNTING CASE
• Features: FANTASTIC MULTICOLOR CASE – BEAUTIFUL!
• Movement: LEVER FULL PLATE GILT
• Pocket Watch Size: 6-SIZE
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Escapement Type: Lever
• Model: MODEL 1
• Serial Number: 1,249,698
• Number of Jewels: 7 Jewels

WONDERFUL PATEK PHILIPPE & CIE CHRONOMETRO GONDOLO IN SOLID GOLD 18K CASE. Please check out all the pictures they are better at describing the good condition of this case original in solid gold 18K. Look at the quality here. Movement Manufactured by the PATEK PHILIPPE & CIE geneve special order to gondolo store in rio de janeiro/Brasil. The case weights 65grams with the movement. The case measures 46MM in diameter not including the crown and bail. All hinges are tight and work as intended. The cover snaps open to 90 degrees. The crystal is original. Watch is in good condition. HI GRADE Mechanic (manual winding) movement with. Signed PATEK PHILIPPE & CIE GENEVE NUMBER: 814432, manufactured circa 1928. Gondolos stratagem in Brazil Patek Philippe was one of the first watchmaking firms to enjoy business relations with the United States, dating from 1851, when it signed an exclusive agreement with Tiffany & Co. The founders letters, carefully preserved in Patek Philippes archives, are a fascinating record of the perils to which the traveller was exposed at that time. The firm had been present in Latin America since the 1870s, but sales in this market really took off towards the end of the nineteenth century, when business relations began with distributors Gondolo & Labouriau, in Rio de Janeiro. Carlos Gondolo and his partner, Paulo Labouriau, had devised an ingenious sales method. This consisted of a buyers club for 180 watch enthusiasts. The first week, the members paid ten dollars a week and then drew lots, with the winner acquiring a Patek Philippe. The timepiece in question was the celebrated Chronometro Gondolo, a calibre specially created for Gondolo and found in no other Patek Philippe timepiece. The second week, the remaining 179 members again paid ten dollars, and so on until the seventy-ninth week, when all the remaining members, each of whom had paid 790 dollars, received a Patek Philippe watch. The trade name Chronometro Gondolo was registered at 8 oclock on March 10, 1902 under the N° 14401. The Chronometro Gondolo was manufactured with a range of watch-cases (in gold, in silver or in niello silver), dials (divided in 12 or 24 hours) and hands. The movement diameters varied between 10 to 22 lines, a unit of measurement used for indicating the size of the movement. A line is equivalent to 2.256 mm giving rise to cases from 32 to 57 mm in size. The Chronometro Gondolo movements had to incorporate the following technical features to meet the latters requirements: – An ébauche (blank movement) based on a patented design by Adrien Philippe (US Patent N° 20483 of January 13, 1891) equipped with transmission and ratchet-wheels of the mainspring barrel arbor (winding wheels) with wolfs teeth toothing. The mainspring barrel arbor was built with a square indentation for releasing (unwinding) the barrel spring. A wheel train in 9 carat gold. A straight line lever escapement à moustaches (with moustaches refers to an equilibrated lever) with a cut bimetallic balance and a Breguet balance spring. A minimum of 18 jewels (18, 19, 20 or 21). A spiral-shaped eccentric, allowing precision regulation for fast and slow, an improved version of Adrien Philippes French « precision regulator » (Patent, N° 142376, from April 16, 1881). A selection of the watches were designed to be fitted with centre-seconds or chronograph mechanisms. Patek Philippe never produced other watches with gold trains of wheels; but during the second half of the 19th century, they did produce a considerable amount of movements with gold wheels. Wristwatches appeared in the 1920s and were presented in different case shapes, ranging from round, square and rectangular to tonneau and cushion. Extra-flat cushion-shaped Art De. The item “RARE Patek Philippe chronometro Gondolo solid gold 18k case two colors dial” is in sale since Friday, January 08, 2016. This item is in the category “Jewelry & Watches\Watches\Pocket Watches\Antique”. The seller is “azebadam” and is located in São Paulo, São Paulo. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Brand: PATEK PHILIPPE
• Material: Rose Gold
• Closure: Open Face
• Features: 24-hour Dial
• Movement: Mechanical: Hand-winding
• Country Made: Switzerland
• Case Material: Rose Gold
• Age: Antique (pre 1920)