Antique McIntyre 18K Gold Hunter Case Pocket Watch - Running
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Antique McIntyre 18K Gold Hunter Case Pocket Watch - Running. Condition is very nice Pre-Owned Condition. Runs excellent and seems to keep good time. May need to be serviced in the future.White Porcelain Face has no cracks. On Jun-23-19 at 21:17:57 PDT, seller added the following information:ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:The ones that made the high-jeweled watches were the less prominent companies that were trying to compete with something special to try to gain market share. There was a comp...any that only made a very few watches because they never really got in business. That was the McIntyre Watch Company, and their standard watch is 25 jewels. It has extra jewels in the winding mechanism for the little gearing and that show you how much the watch is wound up.The McIntyre Watch Company was an American company. It was started by Fred McIntyre in Kankakee, Illinois in 1908, and it failed in 1911 and was pretty much out of business by 1913. They made a handful of watches as prototypes and Fred tried to sell those to the jewelry stores and actually succeeded in taking orders for a lot of watches but the people that they were renting factory space from evicted them because they had a better tenant. Somebody wanted to come in and make sewing machines, and so they threw out the watch people and gave the space to the sewing machine people.There are only three or four of those watches that are known. Some of them belong to Bruce McIntyre, and one belongs to a collector in Chicago who bought it at the sale when the Time Museum was sold a few years ago. Another one was bought by a person in Wellesley, Mass. So there are four of them that are known, and there were probably eight produced, so there are four sleepers out there someplace. -By Maribeth Keane — April 15th, 2009
