1912 Elgin GF Pocket Watch - 7 Jewel, Model 6, Size 16s, South African Railway KM.12 Coinage Type Pound Sterling Coinage

Coinage Type Pound Sterling Coinage Mint British Royal Mint Composition Silver Fineness 0

40 TCW I/Champagne Color

15 troy ounces of net pure silver

1618 - PCGS Gem New 65 PPQ

1929 $10 Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank Note Fr

1912 Elgin GF Pocket Watch - 7 Jewel, Model 6, Size 16s, South African Railway KM.12 Coinage Type Pound Sterling CoinageThe real story here, outside of it being a fine 100yr+ old watch in good working order, is the travels this watch has taken. We can match this watch back to its original owner thanks to a blurb in a 1917 edition of the "South African Railways and Harbours" magazine (see attached photograph). This watch was gifted to W. S. Burger, almost certainly, when he started working at the railway. Manufactured in 1912, inscribed in 1913 and the owner written