This list comes from an Omega memo:įrom: Departement: Controle Central de FabricationBienne la 16 Fevrier 1970Concerne Annees de fabrication The records that still exist make it possible to roughly date them by their serial numbers. The company changed hands in the 1970s and the new owners destroyed many of the old records, making it difficult to precisely date most Regina watches. Some early watches, made before the Omega takeover have a date stamped on the mechanism. This may be because of their robust quality, the fact that they were sold in rural stores or that Canada had a largely rural population. The term 'farmer watch' is sometimes applied to them. For example: 'Some of these Regina-signed watches were Adjusted Highly Enough as to be suitable for use in railroad time service.' The use of Regina watches for railroad timekeeping is documented on other sites as well. The National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors describes Regina watches as an inferior brand of Omega, but mentions that some were adjusted highly enough to be used as railroad timepieces, which was the standard for quality watches. Regina watches are occasionally stamped with the name of an American city, indicating that some were sold in the United States. One watch has been traced to the Arcola Jewelry store in Arcola Saskatchewan.
The result is that many Regina watches have the name and town of a vendor on their face. Individually stamped production runs were made for a small fee. Usually the Roman numerals are scratched in by hand. Sometimes, the watch case companies would mark the bezels with the last few digits of the case number using Roman numerals.
You can usually tell if you have a complete watch case by seeing if these serial numbers match.
The case serial number is printed on several parts of the watch case. Philip has also written books on watch case sponsor's marks covering the earlier period of 1631 - 1720 and the watch case maker Dennison. When looking for the number on your watch you should be looking at the serial number on the movement, not the case. Hampden Pocket Watch Serial Numbers Use this table to look up the serial number of your Hampden Pocket Watch and hence the year of manufacture. The faces and mechanisms were imported into New York and assembled with cases in Ontario, for sale mostly in Canada.
The name was then trademarked by Omega in 1911, indicating that they bought the company at that time. The name Regina Pocket Watch was originally trademarked by LOUIS MAIER in Bienne Switzerland in 1888. Regina pocket watches were a brand of pocket watches made by Omega that were popular in the early 1900s. Most often you will find the Zenith number. In some cases, Zenith does not use serial numbers – only caliber numbers and case numbers. Note that the way you look up serial numbers on a Zenith watch has changed over the course of the many years that the company has been in business. For example, it was not common for a pocket watch to have a second hand until after 1800, according to Cooksey Shugart, author of “Complete Price Guide to Watches.” If the watch has a case that identifies it as a Waltham and the inside bears another watchmaker name, the. The case may not be the original, and replacement parts are common.