The Ukraine Skeleton

1908 Grade 290

Front

Push Button Modification

This watch has the lever modified so that you can release the winding mechanism and set the time using the push of a button instead of taking the the front crystal off and pulling the lever like the old days.

Front on Wrist

Back

In December 2021, I bought this 100+ year old watch.

Originally, it was a pocket watch created by the South Bend Watch Company. But at some point someone converted to a large-ish wrist watch.

South Bend is the largest city near me (and where I say I'm from if non-locals ask).

So I had to get it.

I found it on eBay in Ukraine and brought it back home — a few miles from where it was born.

A century old and it traveled half-way around the world and back in that time.

And I can't stop thinking about its history.