Ran across this

[stan2323]

I moved resently and I found this that I forgot I had bought in Germany. I found it in a flea market and I think I paid 25 or 30 Euros for it. I know it is not valuble or rate but I had never seen one like it.

We will start with the back.

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u293/stan2323/DCP_3169.jpg
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u293/stan2323/DCP_3170.jpg
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u293/stan2323/DCP_3172.jpg
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u293/stan2323/DCP_3175.jpg
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u293/stan2323/DCP_3178.jpg

How did that get so small? LOL ;-)

Now the front.

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u293/stan2323/DCP_3179.jpg
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u293/stan2323/DCP_3181.jpg
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u293/stan2323/DCP_3182.jpg
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u293/stan2323/DCP_3185.jpg

What happend to the front? LOL ;-)

I have little to no info about the watch but I like it. It runnes great and losses about one minute and 45 seconds a day. Not that I use it but I wind it once every week or so to keep it working.

Just sharing some pictures for you to enjoy and get you opinon.

[Ray MacDonald]

I think it's a Chinese calibre - fairly modern design - a wristwatch movement in a pocketwatch case. Maybe Chas or one of our other Chinese model experts could confirm it.

[Chascomm]

Is this one of those glass-ball watches (I think I see the flat standing surface on the first pic)?

I've seen a lot of these on ebay recently, and I'm glad to see that yours does not say 'Omega'. There are smaller ones being made now with woman-size calibres.

It's a modern Chinese piece, although my watchmaker showed me an old one with a Baumgartner pin-lever movement, so they've been made in Hong Kong since at least the early 1980s.

The movement is the Chinese Standard Movement (or as Babelfish would have it: 'national unification machine core' :-d), introduced throughout the Chinese watch industry in the late 1960s as part of a program of 'consolidation' (following an earlier period of technological development). This standardization enabled dozens of watch factories to be established throughout the country. However 'standardization' can be a deceptive term and the quality varies greatly from one factory to another, depending on the amount of local watchmaking experience prior to the introduction of this movement. Also, any enhancements such as calendar mechanism or auto-winding tend to be proprietory.

'ZLN' indicates that this particular movement was made in the Liaoning Watch Factory whose history stretches back to the 1960s and includes some good quality pre-standardization products. In the 1980s they made a 33 jewel high-grade automatic for the national railways. These days they make a variety of calibres, including a flying carousel-tourbillon. That being said, the basic ZLN was built to a budget and consequently turns up in a lot of low-priced Hong Kong watches.

[stan2323]

Is this one of those glass-ball watches (I think I see the flat standing surface on the first pic)?

Give the man a cigar. LOL. I was wondering if anyone would be able to figure it out:-!. Thanks for the info. It was very difficult to get good pictures of the glass ball part. Below are the best I could get.

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u293/stan2323/DCP_3190.jpg
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u293/stan2323/DCP_3193.jpg
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u293/stan2323/DCP_3194.jpg