How not to "convert" a pocket watch

peasant

What's wrong with this picture?



http://www.ebay.de/itm/Vintage-Mens-1936-Primo-OMEGA-Huge-Stainless-Steel-Antique-Wristwatch-/330633342331?pt=Wristwatches&hash=item4cfb486d7b

coylemj

There isn't necessarily anything wrong with it, it might have been made like that for someone like a pilot who would have his arms extended in front of him for hours on end and having the face rotated in that fashion would make it easier to read the time.

I doubt if that was ever a pocket watch because it's very slim and doesn't appear to have any mounting for a chain. That winder was a very neat retrofit if that device started life as a pocket watch.

Remember that before electronic devices for measuring the pulse (heart rate), nurses used to wear fob watches which to an observer was an upside down watch hanging from the lapel so there have been instances of non-standard mountings for specific people.

Wibbs

Possible alright. There were so called driving watches with the dial rotated not unlike peasant's pic. There were all sorts of odd designs in the early days. EG

Gruen "Ristside"


And here's another similar;


I'd put money down that this is a conversion though. IMHO it's had a redial and they're the wrong hands and the lugs are a slightly different colour metal.

peasant

Wibbs wrote: »

the lugs are a slightly different colour metal.

Not to mention the "slight discoloration" that toook place when your man soldered on those lugs and torched the movement holder green and blue

peasant

The one above must have been a first attempt ...he got it right after:



also note the nifty alteration to the lug to allow for a crown at 12

Wibbs

Nice Longines movement in that one.