In this video, we discuss how to determine whether an enamel pocket watch dial is hand-painted or produced using a transfer or photographic process. The larger American watch factories developed transfer processes in the mid-1880s, eventually leading to the end of hand-painted dials for standard...
Hand-Painted
Pictured: Closeup Details of Elgin National Watch Company “Masonic, Knights Templar” Society Dial No. 1117, c.1890s. In August 1889, the Elgin National Watch Company introduced a line of society and.
Hand-Colored “Dominion” Locomotive Dial, Winter Scene, Fitted on a Waltham 18-Size Crescent St. Movement. Shortly after the American watch factories perfected new procedures for efficiently marking dials with transfer techniques,.