10/30/2022 0 Comments Doxa serial number year![]() ![]() The first military airplanes had cockpit watches, which were like pocket watches, which hung on the instrument panel with the winding knob downward and the second hand at the 12. ![]() I have found this now so thinking it may be aviator? I got waltham from a serial number database. the mistery it says argentan!!! much microscopic help with the iphone Hope this may be of help and if you can provide further information and/or clearer pictures we may be able to solve 'Argentina' more definitely. Waltham is an American manufacturer, not Swiss. ![]() I am not sure how you arrived at the date of 1888 bfor your watch but it cannot be right, since the patent on the watch was not granted till 1907. 3 which is so out of focus that I cannot see anything) but Argentina was one of the marks of James Calame-Robert (La Chaux-de-Fonds Switzerland) who made watch movements and cases. You have not shown the word Argentina which you say you can see (unless it was photo No. I am not suffuciently expert in watch movements to recognise it from the movement but others may be able to confirm it is a Doxa watch. In 1889 Ducommun started the Doxa Watch factory in Le Locle, so it may well be that they made your watch. The number 33236 is not the serial number of the watch, it is Swiss Patent No.33236 which was granted in 1907 to Georges Ducommun of Le Locle, Switzerland, and was in relation to a watch movement with longer than usual running time, hence the '8 days' written on the dial. ![]()
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