[Jim Carroll]

Here is a grade 528 Illinois watch I bought a few years ago, I replaced the dial.

[Jim Carroll]

[quote name='Jim Carroll' date='Jan 3 2009, 12:20 PM' post='387461']
Here is a grade 528 Illinois watch I bought a few years ago, I replaced the dial.

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[river rat]

I would like to see your watch but photo's come up blank on the screen.

[Jim Carroll]

Ill try this post again.
Here is a grade 528 Illinois watch I bought a few years ago, I replaced the dial.

[river rat]

Nice watch look's better with the better looking dial are they the same hands?

This post has been edited by river rat: 03 January 2009 - 04:40 PM

[Mikrolisk]

Nice watch! It was made in 1921.
Congrats!

Andreas

[Jim Carroll]

I changed the hands also; The Illinois Watch Co. made 1,200 of these high end movements in the early 1920s, when the Hamilton Watch Co. in 1927 it converted the unsold movements to the Hamilton Grade 400 then went on to produce another 1,500 Hamilton 400 grades from new.
I’ll post a few images of the converted and the Hamilton new 400’s.