How to identify an inherited watch, find out what it is truly worth, decide whether to service it, and sell it fairly or keep it well. Never sell a family watch for less than it's worth.
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Grüezi, my friend. I was sixteen when I sat down at my first watchmaker's bench in the Swiss mountains. Many years later I came to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to restore the old American railroad watches.
Almost every week, someone walks into my workshop holding a watch in both hands. "It was my grandfather's," they say. "Is it worth anything?" Too often, they ask me after they have polished away the case marks, let a stranger "fix" it with the wrong parts, or sold it to the first jeweler who offered eighty dollars for a watch worth two thousand.
I cannot look at your watch from these pages. But I can teach you to look at it the way I do.
Anton
Each card shows the eras, what you're likely to find, the details that matter, and the safe checks to make before you do anything.
Four parts, in the order a watchmaker works: identify, research, decide, then act.
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Read it. Take your watch to the window with a magnifier and the identification sheet. If within seven days you feel it wasn't worth it, reply to your receipt email and you'll get every dollar back.
Anton is a Swiss watchmaker, 66, trained in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the heart of Swiss watchmaking. For many years he has restored watches in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the old home of the Hamilton Watch Company, especially the American railroad watches families bring him.
On his channel he teaches families what he wishes every one of them knew before they walked into his workshop: how to read a watch, what it's really worth, and how not to lose its value or its story.
Anton's first rule: for seven days, do nothing to the watch. Only look, write and read. A watch has waited fifty years. It can wait seven more days.
No. It's a PDF you download the moment you pay. Nothing arrives in the mail. You can print any page at home.
It teaches you how to find out. Watch prices change constantly, so instead of a price list that goes out of date, it shows you how to find what watches like yours actually sold for, and when to ask an independent appraiser.
Yes. The identification method, the gold marks, the value method, the service guide and the selling scripts work for any watch.
It shows you the red flags for fakes and mixed-part watches, so you know when to ask an expert. Nobody can authenticate a watch from a book.
Reply to your receipt email within seven days and you'll get a full refund.
Read page 8. It takes two minutes and protects everything the watch is worth.
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P.S. The jeweler who offers to buy your watch is the last person who should tell you what it's worth. Page 38 gives you the exact words to say.
Page 8, the Do-Nothing Week
Page 14, gold marks
Page 15, pocket watches
Page 16, the Hamilton card
Page 38, the $80 offer