My Buddy & I Went For A relic Hunt....He Dug Up A Gold Pocket Watch!:drool:

[John-Edmonton]

This is the kind of day it was, Met at McDonalds for breakfast, then huntd all day! The ground is still frozen in some places......

Here's the gold watch my buddy dug with his AT Pro. Swiss made. Too bad the crystal was broken. But....a fantastic find!

I dug up an old lid of some face cream It's been around for a long time. Below is the head-stamp off a dug cartridge.

 

[Dancer]

Wow, think he's looking into restoration, keeping it, or selling for scrap. ?

 

[John-Edmonton]

He doesn't know......he will just probably keep it.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

outstanding. In my 40 yrs. of this, I think I've only found 3 or 4 gold watches. And in each case, naturally the innards were toasted (or completely gone in the case of one found on the wet salt beach storm erosion). A hard and rare find indeed. Congratz !

 

[dfmike]

Cool finds. the text accompanying the face cream lid made me laugh. In those days keeping skin as white as possible was a priority. Now it's all about getting the skin as toasted as possible. Metal detecting yields lessons in history and the way people thought and behaved. So much can change in a mere century. Thanks for sharing

 

[Finderskeeper]

Finding a watch is exciting till you find out that there were tons of them made and even though they look like gold, usually they are gold plated or filled.

Most watches that you find hunting were like today's cheap wrist watches. They cost very little to make and when they failed, which they most often did because of their cheap inner workings, then they were just tossed wherever they were discovered to be broken.

My first gold watch was really exciting thinking I struck gold. Found out it was worth........nothing. I still have that watch......it is in pretty good shape for being buried under a foot and a half of dirt for so long. But it does not work and would not be worth fixing.
I keep it to remind me to never ever count my chickens before they hatch.

 

[always diggin 2]

wow! congrats awesome hunt.