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Pretty nifty 1898 $20 gold watch

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  • goldengolden Posts: 10,004 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cool!

  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,697 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 6, 2020 3:05PM

    Neat! This is the second one I’ve seen. The other one was at the LCS I work at. That one ahead a 1904 in it. They sold it a while ago.

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  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's nice!

  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice !!! :)

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  • thebeavthebeav Posts: 3,937 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 7, 2020 5:19PM

    'Corum' was the original.....I've never owned one though.

  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A watch that can't be easily read without opening the front ... pass ... melt bucket material.

    All glory is fleeting.
  • ThreeCentSilverFLThreeCentSilverFL Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very cool.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Classy item....not practical, but still would go nice at a formal affair....What is the price tag on one of those? Cheers, RickO

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,903 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @291fifth said:
    A watch that can't be easily read without opening the front ... pass ... melt bucket material.

    I bet that watch is worth a lot more than melt value. :D

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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:

    @291fifth said:
    A watch that can't be easily read without opening the front ... pass ... melt bucket material.

    I bet that watch is worth a lot more than melt value. :D

    I'm sure it is ... but not to me.

    All glory is fleeting.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,903 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The watch case is made with two sawed in half and hollowed out double eagles to make room for the watch movement. I'm guessing there's less than half an once of gold there.

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    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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  • AlexinPAAlexinPA Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very interesting and unusual. Cool.

  • LuxorLuxor Posts: 529 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very cool item!

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