Anthony Jordan
Practically Family
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Esteemed fellow Loungers, having read through all 20 pages of this thread with a question, I am none the wiser, albeit undoubtedly now better-informed. Perhaps you can help!
Whilst on holiday in the Netherlands last year I bought myself a cheap vintage pocket watch. The silver plate was very worn and I doubted if it would keep very good time but nonetheless I really wanted it for some reason and got the seller to bring the price down to the 10 Euros which constituted all my remaining spending money...
Anyway, it came with a twisted fancy chain, with no t-bar, in a very coppery brass which really didn't look right with the brassy/silver tones of the watch. Therefore, before Christmas I was moved to try and find a better chain for it, getting through two handsome, but not quite right, chains before eventually settling for the one illustrated, which was the right price and (being in two tones, brass and white metal) worked well, I thought.
My watch and chain:
The other contenders, now on their way to good homes:
Bearing in mind that I am only used to my family heirloom heavy silver watchchain, a single Albert with t-bar, the one common denominator with these, which caught me by surprise, was the ring catch where I thought the t-bar would be. In my simplicity, I thought that its purpose was to clip "around" the waiscoat buttonhole, if you follow me, so that it would serve much the same anchoring function as a t-bar, just in a different way. The span of the catch, however, makes a nonsense of this, as I swiftly found out. My question, then, is - what is it for? I am coming around to the view that I am supposed to thread the chain through the buttonhole with watch in one pocket and something else on the other - is this correct? Any information welcome!
Whilst on holiday in the Netherlands last year I bought myself a cheap vintage pocket watch. The silver plate was very worn and I doubted if it would keep very good time but nonetheless I really wanted it for some reason and got the seller to bring the price down to the 10 Euros which constituted all my remaining spending money...
Anyway, it came with a twisted fancy chain, with no t-bar, in a very coppery brass which really didn't look right with the brassy/silver tones of the watch. Therefore, before Christmas I was moved to try and find a better chain for it, getting through two handsome, but not quite right, chains before eventually settling for the one illustrated, which was the right price and (being in two tones, brass and white metal) worked well, I thought.
My watch and chain:
The other contenders, now on their way to good homes:
Bearing in mind that I am only used to my family heirloom heavy silver watchchain, a single Albert with t-bar, the one common denominator with these, which caught me by surprise, was the ring catch where I thought the t-bar would be. In my simplicity, I thought that its purpose was to clip "around" the waiscoat buttonhole, if you follow me, so that it would serve much the same anchoring function as a t-bar, just in a different way. The span of the catch, however, makes a nonsense of this, as I swiftly found out. My question, then, is - what is it for? I am coming around to the view that I am supposed to thread the chain through the buttonhole with watch in one pocket and something else on the other - is this correct? Any information welcome!