Top 5 Silver Pocket Watch Brands

The pocket watch has all but died away like scrapbooking kits thanks to the overbearing popularity of the wristwatch and now the cell phone clock. In many ways cellular phones have become our pocket watches since we use them to tell time often more than we do our normal watches.

It is still nice to have an antique silver pocket watch lying around to pull out of your floor safe whenever you feel regal or old fashioned and this article is going to cover the best brands for that new silver tone pocket watch you’ve been thinking about buying.

You can also find some really nice utility pocket watches these days. If you're an outdoors kind of person who doesn't like to wear a wrist watch, you can find a really nice pocket watch that will clip to your belt or backpack and allow you to keep track of the time and sometimes even the direction you're headed.

The Waltham Pocket Watch Company is dated back to August of 1881. They were making pocket watches for years and they made some really high quality stuff. The Waltham were thought only to be manufactured by manual skill but this idea was shattered by a Mr. Robbins who began to mass produce these pocket watches with automated machinery.

The minute and hour wheels of these watches are underneath the dial. They are driven by a system of gearing and the cannon pinion sits snug on the center shaft. Waltham watches made today are wound by turning the crown of the case. 

Another brand of vintage silver pocket watch, the Elgin’s solid silver pocket watch is one of the finer quality watches available today. The price of these watches rise and fall with the market but they are always pretty expensive. A watch which may have been made in 1910 and sold for around five hundred dollars might be worth over five thousand dollars today but there are some Elgin watches out there today that might only sell for under one hundred dollars. 

The Charles Huber sterling silver pocket watch is the old classic pocket watch design. These pocket watches range in price from fifty to two hundred dollars and they are high quality pieces. They are often decorated with intricate engravings on the watch face and when you open the watch it is a Charles Hubert staple to show all of the gears as the watch ticks away. These are inexpensive pocket watches but are worth having for day to day use. Plus, they look great with a suit. 

The Dakota pocket watch is a puts a modern spin on the old style pocket watch. The Dakota is a silver pocket watch with heavy duty clips attached to it to be used for backpacking and look more like utility watches than pocket watches. The Dakota watch would be a great pocket watch to take out camping and some of them even have built in compasses. 

The high end Bellagio pocket watch is all about presentation. These pocket watches come with a silver pocket watch stand so you can display it on the mantle and pass it down through the generations. They are usually well over two hundred dollars in price and are decorated with gold and silver engravings.

 If you’re interested in purchasing a silver pocket watch make sure to browse all of the different styles online to find one that fits your personal look. You may want use the pocket watch on a daily basis to keep track of the time or you may be looking for an expensive family heirloom to pass down to your kids. Either way, one of the above pocket watch brands would be a great choice.