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265492 Mick Dowling <spacelysprocket@b...> 2018‑03‑18 Stanley Tools wrist watch
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For Stanley tool nuts only.

At the HTPAA tool sale yesterday I was shown a wrist watch with the Stanley
Tools logo. I can send a picture to anyone interested, but since Picasa is
no more I don't have anywhere to put a pic online.

It's a quartz watch, new in the box, with a limited lifetime guarantee, and
some other paperwork. I should have paid more attention. Made in the USA,
with a Japanese movement.

The logo is the same as the decal found on 1930's bench plane totes etc.

No amount of googling has found another.

If it turns out to be worthless, I'll track it down, and happily mail it to
whoever wants to take it off my hands. Just let me know.

Mick Dowling
Melbourne
Member, Hand Tool Preservation Association of Australia Inc.

PS. In fact trying to find out it's value, as it is part of a consignment
the HTPAA is selling.
265494 Mike Lynd 2018‑03‑19 Re: Stanley Tools wrist watch
I doubt that this watch was authorised by Stanley.



There seems to be a thriving business in making new watches with
"interesting" dial illustrations.

My father was one of about 400 survivors of the sinking of HMS Barham in
1941.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCFMfTfMCSU

There can be few if any of the survivors alive now and therefore, I would
have thought, very little interest in a Royal Naval battleship sunk more
than seventy years ago.

And yet, and yet, on ebay someone is offering for sale HMS Barham watches:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCFMfTfMCSU



I suspect that your Stanley watch falls into the same speculative "Let's
make a few and see whether they sell" category.

best wishes,

Mike Lynd

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