17 Jewel Pocket
are swiss made josmar pocket watches worth anything?
It says in the back under the cover in very small print:
17 seventeen jewels unadjusted swiss made josmar watch sa
i tried doing some research online and didnt find much. apparently they were in business from 1940 - 1969 until they were bought out by a larger company. not sure about anything besides that.
No, this was a low-end manufacturer from the days when the Swiss made most wrist watches used in the world. There were dozens of companies around at the time, most of whom went out of business or were acquired after the so-called quartz revolution. The most innovative Swiss companies like Patek Philippe, Rolex and Omega have older models now worth thousands and even millions of dollars, but outside the top 50 or so well established brands (and Josmar is not one of them) there are rarely models worth more than a few dollars second-hand.
The 17 jewels will be artificial ones and that is just about enough jewels to make it fully-jewelled. Unadjusted simply means it is not the most accurate of timepieces, but should keep pretty good time. If it is slow it can be cleaned up and, whilst not valuable, is a tiny marvel of mechanical engineering and probably still makes a classy dress watch.
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