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Old 22 August 2010, 05:34 PM   #4
Spark
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Real Name: Mark
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Hi,
The hallmarks will be able to date the watch, but as for model numbers etc.. they will not help.
If it is a wire lug watch as I expect, that is about as much as you'll find out as there is very little information on these watches.
When the watch was imported it would have been marked with the city of import mark and date letter etc, which is what the 'q' mark you have is.
It will have an import mark too, this could be 2 F's one inverted and facing eachother for Glasgow, Birmingham is a Triangle, Edinburgh is an X, Sheffield is like the Omega symbol on a plinth, London is like a horseshoe shape and Dublin looks like an M with a horizontal line through it midway.

With the import mark and date letter (including if it is upper or lower case etc..) you will be able to date the watch and have an idea of where it started life.

I hope this is of some use.

Mark.
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