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Bulls eye pocket watch8/3/2023 ![]() Railroad pocket watches look great with beveled edge crystals. The beveled edge was purely a stylistic choice, and gives the watch a crisp, sharply defined outline for the dial. Many vintage pocket watches have open face crystals with a beveled outer edge, as shown below. Watches that have no case-lid over the dial of the watch are called "open-face". if the clearance between cover and crystal is small, you're very likely to break the crystal! Open Face Beveled Edge Crystal This is a great reason why you NEVER shut a hunter case watch with your big ol' thumb pressing right in the middle of the cover. Typical glass thickness for a hunter crystal is 0.4mm - 0.5mm, so they are quite thin and fragile. Sometimes there is VERY little clearance and finding a crystal that fits properly can be quite difficult. One of the challenges of fitting a replacement hunter crystal is that it must be high enough to not touch the center arbor or interfere with the hands, and low enough to not interfere with the case lid. Hunter-style crystals tend to be quite thin and fragile, and vary from almost flat to slightly convex, but all must be low enough to allow the metal case lid to close. ![]() If the watch has a hunter-case (with a metal cover over the dial and crystal) then the watch uses a hunter-style or Geneva-style crystal. We'll show you the more common styles (and a couple of less common styles) and provide a little information about how they were used. Original crystals for vintage pocket watches were typically made of mineral glass, and came in a wide variety of shapes, thicknesses and styles. That doesn't mean it's made of crystal, but "crystal" is the correct name for it. The piece of glass that covers the dial of your watch is called the crystal. Pocketwatch 101 ℠ – Learn about Vintage and Antique Pocket Watches All About Vintage Pocket Watch Crystals Common Crystal Types and Styles ![]()
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