A pocket watch manufactured by Touchon for Tiffany & Co, with attached chain and mechanical pencil and pocket knife. Touchon was largely established as a prestige watchmaker for Tiffany. This is a slim line “Banker’s Watch,” specifically marketed to the finance sector. Serial #43375. Comes in original Tiffany case, allowing for specific dating of the watch’s construction to the second half of the 1910s. Marked 14K gold in two places.
The watch is engraved ‘H. E. W.,’ came into the possession of the consignor from an Atlanta estate sale in the 1950s, and the consignor knew that the original owner went by ‘Harry.’ Cross-referencing this information with available city directories and census records, and considering the value of this watch at the time, there are only a handful of select individual who could have owned this particular watch in that time period in that place. Based on how Touchon was marketed, the most likely original owner of this watch Henry E. Watkins, Secretary and Treasurer of the Georgia Banker’s Association, Vice President of the Empire Cotton Oil Company, and prominent Atlanta socialite. This lot has a reserve.
