The old pocket watch didn't look like much ... by way of his mother, a box of broken watches, takes comfort in timepieces the way some might find solace in a well-worn shoe.

The sale, dubbed The Collection of a Connoisseur, included several antique pocket watches and decorative snuff boxes, brought in £5.4 million—about $6.8 million at current exchange. Remarkably ...

For specialist collectors, pocket watches represent good value ... is sold with a presentation box and a contemporary point-of-sale advertising card promoting Hopkins & Hopkins of Dublin as ...

Want more insider watch coverage? Get Box + Papers ... karat gold Heuer pocket chronograph from 1914. The century-old piece was loaned to the Wednesday star by Heuer super collector (and Watch ...

But I inherited his 19th-century silver pocket watch, made not that long ... stuck for a half-century in a 1950s Hamilton watch box—tarnished, scratched, with the movement long dormant.

The pocket watch ... original fitted box, the chain, lamp pendant and documentation attesting to the piece’s provenance. “It definitely will be going to a fan or a collector of James Dean ...

A frozen-in-time gilded pocket watch found on the body ... The historic watch, which had ended up in a private collection, was sold at Henry Aldridge & Sons in Devizes, UK. The auction also ...

LONDON, UK — A gold pocket watch given to the ship captain ... Auctioneers Henry Aldridge and Son, who sold the watch to a private collector in the United States on Saturday for 1.56 million ...

By Chris Hall Reporting from London It has been described as the most famous watch in the world. Some say it is the most valuable. And now, for the first time in decades, the pocket watch that ...