The Model 23*

1913 Only

The Model 23 was the only known movement with a bridge design and was offered in four grades, including a 17-jewel Adjusted-3-Position with gold inlay on the plate engravings. It was apparently offered for the first time with the Model 22, and it's bizarre that the company would tool up to manufacture, not one, but two 12-size movements when their sales were slumping toward the end of watch production.

* This is an assigned model number

Grade Lookup and Totals

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The watches logged in the Model 23 Serial Number Table are all reported examples or verified from photos.

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Model 23 Grade Totals (pdf)

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Model 23 SN Table (pdf)

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Model 23 Run Chart (pdf)

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M23 Grade Assignment

Four grades were listed in the 1913 catalog and described in detail. The three higher grades came with ruby jewels in gold settings and a polished gilt gear train, and all four came with a micro-regulator.

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Production Dates and Totals

1913 Only

The Model 23 apparently debuted in the 1913 Trade Catalog alongside the Model 22. No prior publication has been found and it was not mentioned in the 1914 supplement, which listed only the three remaining Centennial grades. It's bizarre that the company would tool up to produce, not one, but two 12-size movements when their sales were slumping toward the end of pocket watch production. No named grades or private labels have been reported.

4,500

Fewer than 5,000 of the Model 23 were made, making it the smallest production total of any of the known models.

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Period Ad Cuts

1913

In the Centennial catalog the 21-jewel Maiden Lane was selling for $50, so the $25 price tag on the 17-jewel Adjusted-3-Position Grade 28 as a men's dress watch was considerable. These watches were available in "very thin special" cases.

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Seth Thomas Highlights

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

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