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How to Clean your Antique Pocket Watch

How to Gently Clean Your Antique Elgin, Waltham, or Hamilton Pocket Watch

Whether you have a simple antique pocket watch, railroad watch, or an elegant Waltham, Hamilton, or Elgin pocket watch, this post will set out some guidelines for you as you clean your watch at home. For this job, I recommend having Hagerty’s purple silver polish and their dry silver polish in an aerosol can on [...]

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Elgin Pocket Watch

How late it’s getting! Pocket Watches Gold and Silver

The White Rabbit. Johnny Depp. Abraham Lincoln. Ghandi .  What possible connection could there be between these four characters? The answer is simply a pocket watch.  In Abraham Lincoln’s case it was a William Ellery pocket watch. In his book Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll introduces the character of the White Rabbit with the with [...]

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