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The Model 22*

1913 to 1915

As late as 1910 there was no mention of a 12-size watch being made by Seth Thomas in any of the known catalogs, so it's interesting that the factory would design one so late in the game. The Model 22 debuted in 1913 with the Centennial Trade List, offered in just two jewel counts on nickel plates and available as a complete factory-cased watch only.


*  This is an assigned model number

Grade Lookup and Totals

Click on the charts below for more detailed information.

The watches logged in the Model 22 Serial Number Table are all reported examples or verified from photos.

These charts are for public use and for personal research, not for the Pocket Watch Database to "borrow".

Model 22 Run Chart (pdf)

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Model 22 SN Table (pdf)

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M22 Grade Assignment

There were only two known grades; both nickel-plated and open-face but with different jewel counts. 

The Centennial Grade

The Centennial Series was a named grade produced in three models, including the 12-size Model 22 family. While the standard Seth Thomas movements have two different jewel counts of 7 and 15, the Centennial grade evidently always carried 7 jewels.

Master Grade Chart

Production Dates and Totals

1913 to 1915

  The first known record of the 12-size Model 22 was in the 1913 Trade List, advertised as part of the Centennial Line in one of three sizes. It continued in the 1914 catalog supplement, the only pocket watches still being offered by the company, and by 1915 the company was offering them at 50% off. It's bizarre that the company would tool up to manufacture a 12-size movement when their sales were slumping toward the end of pocket watch production by 1914. There were no named grades other than the Centennial grade, and no private labels have been reported.

39,100

Roughly 39,100 of the Model 22 were made in a single unbroken block, the majority of which were the 7-jewel Centennial grade. 

Master Block Chart

Period Ad Cuts

1913

The Centennial catalog.

1915

The 1915 catalog insert pertaining to leftover Centennial stock, courtesy of the Smithsonian Museum of American History Library.

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The rarest regular-production two-tone pattern of all, made in one block of seventy - and then never again.

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