Old England Steering Wheel Watch

[JerseyMo]

picker up a small lot of watches yesterday and this was among them

I have it running again but,  need to replace the crystal too.  The one in photo is just a touch to shallow and the tip of the seconds hand hangs up.

Of course a month ago I would have had 100's of spare crystal to select from but decide to clear some draw space and sold them off.

That is what happens when you try to down size!

 

 

 

[AndyHull]

Nice. What sort of vintage is it? I presume that is a Mercury (a now defunct Ford motor company division) promo watch. My guess would be early 1960s.
 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(automobile)

Edited October 26, 2018 by AndyHull

[vinn3]

the first mercury came out in 1939.   vin

[oldhippy]

I did wonder what I would be looking at. Never seen anything like that. Never ever, get rid of anything that is to do with horology. You never know when it will come in handy.

[JerseyMo]

I do recall seeing one of these steering wheel watches before but did not recall the maker was "Old England".

Ebay has many of these listed and some go for a nice return.

[yankeedog]

My guess is post ww2 vintage  ?  as I recall the mercury as in the swift messenger of the gods motif was before my time. ( age 59 ). nothing like this would have been made during the war or during the Korean war due to shortages of chrome so I would guess post ww2 but pre Korea, interesting..

[JerseyMo]

the vintage of these watches is late 60's into the 70's

[yankeedog]

really ? I stand corrected. having never seen one before I thought it to be older than I am. what kind of movement is in it?

Edited November 12, 2018 by yankeedog