WATCH POP

can this bombe really be so perfect? (1965)
or... (dread) redial???
Email me if you'd like to be put on the list for upcoming Edmonton Watch Club meetings (very casual). Looks original. I wouldn't be surprised. Had a pleasure of handling a 47 year old Sub recently, and it looked like my A series SD,....mint! This thing did not see much wrist time and/or elements. The Sub and this watch looks like it lived in the jewellry box most of its lifetime. Great piece! :) Hi C
It looks like one of the DS&S UK made cases for the less expensive watches. Most likely 9k and from the early 1960s.
How did I do?
Good Luck
James "'Tis with our judgements as our watches: none
go just alike, yet each believes his own."
Alexander Pope. You don't need our approval. You forgot more about Rolex than we'll ever learn! I'd put up a link to let you know.. but our other moderator would kill it... so... here we are...back of the case (inside) as shown on forbidden site. I'm not sure what DS&S stands for? but it appears to be a Rolex case - and you are right 9K for sure.
What is DS&S and is this that?
Email me if you'd like to be put on the list for upcoming Edmonton Watch Club meetings (very casual). nt
"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing". Edmund Burke was a London based case maker that worked for Rolex as well as other brands like Longines, Cyma, Baume etc.
"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing". Edmund Burke with Birmingham 9ct gold hallmarks for 1965.
D.S. & S. was David Shackman & Sons, and also seen on English-made Rolex cases is B & S (Britton & Sons?).
Typical English-market 9ct Rolex, very popular in the 1950's, 60's, and early 70's as corporate gifts and long service awards, usually with a big presentation inscription on the case back.
Nice...
MW Hi C
ALD was Aaron Lufkin Dennison, a Birmingham based casemaker who had made cases for Rolex for almost 60 years. They were founded by the eponymous Mr. D who was more famous for having originally founded the Waltham Watch Co. in the US, as well as the Howard watch co & the American Watch companies. He is known for all of that, but his real claim to fame was that in 1850 he produced the world's first watch with interchangable parts and, as such, was the true inventor of the production line before Colt & Ford, who are usually thought of as the pioneers.
DS&S, was D. Shackman & Sons, who were London based and took over the manufacture of cases for Rolex UK after ALD went bust in 1967. The hallmark you show is the Birmingham one for 1965, meaning that this was one of the last ALD cases.
Good Luck
James "'Tis with our judgements as our watches: none
go just alike, yet each believes his own."
Alexander Pope. It's my recollection that Dennison is credited with the semi-automated process of parts reproducibility in America, but I believe that he was preceded in that accomplishment by G-A Leschot (who worked for a time for Vacheron) and before him, in the late 1700's, by Frederic Japy.
As a side note, the Dennison Gauge (or scale) is still used today to size main springs and determine their modulus of elasticity.
But hey, Mr. R, I'm open to correction... :-))