Aurora watch co serial numbers

I wi ll gladly answer any questions you might have about this item. Thank you for your interest in this listing. Jun 07 Tags: 2-tone , aurora , case , checkerboard , hunting , pocket , railroad , scarce , watch Add comment.

Absolutely beautiful movement with a scarce 2-tone damaskeen pattern that features a circular checkerboard pattern at the center, vertical stripes of checkerboard at the sides, and an attractive 2-tone pattern to the mainspring barrel cover. Book as a Grade 8 with an estimated total production of made in the hunting case version. Watch is fronted by its correct double-sunk enamel dial and is housed in a Philadelphia Watch Case Co.

Movement serial number is One casescrew is nickel colored so a mismatch to the other blued movement screws. The U. Jewelers Guild selected Aurora to manufacture watch movements marked "Expressly for the Guild" beginning in May Guild watches included 11 grades, assigned grades No. Grades No. An Aurora "New Model" was introduced around late , assigned grades No. Rood purchased the the Aurora Watch Company at auction.

Cain became superintendent of the Aurora Watch Co. By mid Henry Cain began designing a new line of railroad style movements. The assets of the Aurora Watch Co. Between and November Aurora built an estimated , size watch movements 3 and 8, 6-size ladies watch movements 4. Ladies watch movements were introduced in the Fall of , assigned grades No. Note: These are approximate dates, actual dates may vary by several years.

Gibbs Literary Award. Aug 26, 18, 2, Country. In an ad , Aurora claimed that it was providing exclusive sales territories, only selling to one dealer in each city or town.

Perhaps their most prized watches were Aurora's 15 Ruby Jewel Movements. The last watches were finished late in and by January the watch-making machinery was shipped to the Hamilton Watch Co.

During its short life, Aurora built over , watches. New Model ' The J. Stevens of Atlanta. Weber, Aurora lands a potentially lucrative agreement to manufacture movements for the United States Jewelers' Guild. These are the watches marked "Made Expressly for the Guild. To quote from a Greg Frauenhoff message board post of Jun " Aurora serial numbers were initially blocked by grade number into runs beginning at for grade no.

Thus, mvt is roughly as early as , whereas is considerably later. Use the Lending Library Form. Note that we're using the serial number from the watch movement, not from the watch case. Looking at the table of Waltham serial numbers see example below , you can see that number 20,, was made in and 21,, was made in marked in red in the table below.

Since your serial number falls between those two numbers, you know that your watch was made in or Cases and watches were often made by different companies and each usually has its own serial number. You usually have to take the back off the watch case to see the movement serial number which may appear anywhere on the watch movement.