Now you got me going through boxes in my Attic...Stuff packed & moved twice, over a 35 year span...(and never unpacked)...
When my father died in 1971, my sisters packed up what little personal items he had and saved them for me (I was overseas)...
This pocket watch was among them...It's a
Westclox 'Pocket Ben'...I have no idea how old it is/was, or if it is a cheap bottom-end watch...I recall that it originally had a piece of ribbon holding the fob to the watch...Somehow that ribbon dried up and fell to pieces, so I put this little chain on it, just so I wouldn't lose the fob...
There is a stamp inside that reads
10 56 but there was nothing special that happened on that date (in my family), so that may or may not be the manufacture date...
No idea why my father had it...He did wear a wristwatch, but that seems to have disappeared before I got home...
I don't recall if the Westclox kept good time or not...I've never been a watch person...(I don't own one now - haven't since about 1983)...
