My Ever-growing Ledger

This is a quick post about one of my favorite parts of selling watches: filling in my ledger. I'm a fairly old-fashioned guy (go figure, I'm interested in antique watches), so when I began my watchmaking hobby, I liked the idea of a hand-written ledger. I've only filled out about four pages worth (roughly 40-50 watches), but the simple act of writing in yet another sale on one of the lines is surprisingly rewarding.

On each line, I have the maker, city, year, case, running condition, serial number, other markings/features, date sold, and price sold of the watches. For obvious reasons, I've cut off the prices sold in the picture below. The different colors correlate to different regions of origin - red is for Swiss watches, blue for English, and green for American and others.

Again, this wasn't meant to be a long and terribly intriguing post, but it goes more into the inner-workings of my watchmaking hobby, which I hope is of some interest to you!

Off to College

This will be my last post for a few months as I'm already at college with no watches to fix. Meant to post pictures of the following watches several weeks ago but here they are now:

Arnold Charles Frodsham Simple Split Seconds Chrono

Poitevin Geneve Independent Jumping 1/4 Seconds

Pivoted Detent Chronometer