Wilfred Burrell Pocket Watch Collection

During the years that Wilfred had his jewelry store he collected many interesting pocket watches. After he died, each of his children and grandchildren received one of these watches as a remembrance of him. The watches were mounted in a little case with a glass front. They also received a copy of the book on the history of Burrell Jewelry.

Following you will find descriptions and pictures of the watches in the collection.

Watch # 1: This watch was made by the Elgin Company in 1872. It has a size 18 open face case. The case is made of coin silver and it has a gold stag on the back.  The movement number is M1765558.

Watch #2: This watch was made by the Elgin Company in 1868. It has a size 18 hunting case. The case is made of coin silver.  The movement number is M82183. It was owned originally by Charles William Hardy, who gave it to his son Charles Jesse Hardy. He in turn gave it to his oldest grandson, Wilfred Craig Burrell in 1969. This is a wonderful antique and a special family heirloom. 

Watch # 3: This watch was made by the Elgin Company in 1900. It has a size 18 case with an open face. The case is gold filled.  The number of the 21 jewel movement is M8831217. It was referred to as the Father Time model.

Watch # 4: This watch was made by the Elgin Company in 1905. It has a size 16 case with an open face. The case is gold filled. The number of the 15 jewel movement is M12158674.  Please cherish it.

Watch # 5: This dainty gold watch was made by the Elgin Company in 1910. It has a size 12 hunting case that is gold filled.  The 7 jewel movement number is M13537611.

Watch # 6: This dainty gold watch was made by the Elgin Company in 1888. It has a size 12, open face case that is gold filled.  The number of the 7 jewel movement is M22678279.

Watch # 7: This watch was made by the Elgin Company in 1900. It has a size 12 open face, gold filled case.  The movement number is M8552943, and it is a 7 jewel movement. 

Watch # 9: This watch was made by the Waltham Company in 1910. It has a size 18 case with an open face. The case is gold filled.  The movement number is M15007068, and it is a 17 jewel movement.

Watch # 10: This watch was made by the Waltham Company in 1914. It has a size 12 case with an open face. The case is gold filled.  The movement number is M19296917, and it is a 7 jewel movement.

Watch # 11: It was made by the Waltham Company in 1910. It has a size 12 case with an open face. The case is gold filled.  The movement number is M15107971, and it is a 17 jewel movement.

Watch # 13: It was made by the Hamilton Company in 1898. It has a size 18 case with an open face. The case is gold filled.  The movement number is M522232, and it is a 19 jewel movement.

Watch # 14: It was made by the South Bend Company in 1912. It has a size 18 case with an open face. The case is gold filled.  The movement number is M719201, and it is a 17 jewel movement.

This watch was advertised aggressively. Some adds showed it still ticking in a block of ice and others showed it still ticking in boiling water.

Watch # 15: It was made by the Hampden Company in 1891. It has a size 16 hunting case. The case is gold filled.  The movement number is M816472, and it is a 17 jewel movement.

Watch # 16: It was made by the Hampden Company in 1914. It has a size 16 case with an open face. The case is silveroid.  The movement number is M2870021, and it is a 17 jewel movement.

Watch # 17: This watch was made by the Illinois Company in 1900. It has a size 18 case with an open face. The case is silveroid.  The movement number is M1626421, and it is a 17 jewel movement.

Watch #19: This is one of the older watches in the collection. It has an English Lever movement with a chain drive. It was made in England about 1870. It has a sterling silver hunting case.

Watch # 20: This is one of the few watches in Wilfred Burrell’s, collection that is also part of our family history It was owned by Nevelia Brett Burrell, Wilfred’s grandmother. This timepiece was made in the Mid 1800s and has a cylinder escapement. The hunting style case is made of coin silver.

Watch # 21 (27): This watch is one of the oldest in the collection. It was presumably owned by Sarah Brett Brown. This timepiece was made in 1874 and has a Geneva cylinder escapement. It has a coin silver case and is very ornate.

Watch # 22: This watch was owned Clarice Melena Harding Hardy. It was given to her daughter Kathryn and then became part of the Wilfred Burrell collection. We have not been able to determine the manufacturer; however, it was made in the early 1900s. The hunting type case is made of 14 Karat gold.

Watch #23: This is one of the watches from Wilfred Burrell’s, collection. It was made by the Elgin Company between 1882 and 1891. It has a petite size 6 case with an open face. The hunting style case is gold filled. The movement number is M3234034 and the case number is C326852. It has an 11 jewel movement..

Watch #24: This watch was made by the Waltham Company in 1881. It has a size 18 silveroid case with an open face (# C51812).  The full plate, keywind, movement has 7 jewels (#M1888632).

Watch #25a: This watch was made by the Aurora Company in 1884. It has an ornate, size 18, gold filled, hunting case (#C5748961). It has a 17 jewel, full plate movement (#41873).

Watch #25b:This watch is a Hamilton model 922 manufactured in 1916. It has a hinged, gold filled, size18 case. The movement number is M1620885.

Watch # 26:This watch was manufactured by the Elgin company in 1919. It has a 20 year gold filled case (C3827129). The movement has 7 jewels (M2294356).

Watch # 28: This watch was made by the Waltham Company in 1898. It is a size 18 with an ornate hunting style gold filled case (C133871).  The number of the 17 jewel movement is M8529759.

Watch # 29: We were not able to determine the manufacturer of this little watch or the year it was made. It is a size 6 and the case (#C34618) is made of 18 Karat gold. It also has a key wind movement.

Watch # 30: This watch was made by the American Waltham Company in 1904. It is a size 6 with a hunting style, gold filled, Keystone case. The number of the movement is M13712277.

Watch # 31: This watch has a 15 jewel movement which carries the number M76833. It was made by Suffolk USA. The case was manufactured by the Illinois Watch Case company. It is a size six, gold filled, hunting case # C2793916.

Watch # 32: It is a size 6 manufacture by the Waltham Company in 1908. The movement is #M17490774. The number of the gold filled case is C2900803.

Watch #33: This watch is a size 18 Elgin made in 1890. The movement # is M4997408. The number of the open gold filled case is C8726567.

Watch # 34: This is a Waltham size 16 made in 1902. The number of the 17 jewel movement is M11052923. The number of the gold filled case is C10869331.

Watch # 35:  This is a Waltham size 12 made in 1877. The number of the movement is M1692303. The number of the gold filled case is C1614827.

Watch # 36: This is a Waltham size 18 made in 1890. The number of the movement is M4504183. The number of the silveroid, open faced case is C570825.

Watch # 37: This is a Elgin size 18 made in 1904. The number of the 15 jewel movement is M11062969. The number of the silveroid, open faced case is C8821.

Watch #38: This is a Waltham size 18 made in 1907. The number of the movement is M15370480. The number of the silveroid, open face, case is C656121.

Watch # 39: This size 12 watch was made by the Howard Company in 1912. The number of the movement is M1133491. The number of the Keystone, 10 Karat gold, open face, case is C4518226.

Watch #40: This watch is a size 12 made by the Hampden company in 1916. It is a Model 310 and marked Canton Ontario. The movement number is M3146265. The number on the gold filled open face case is C923393.

Watch # 41: This watch was a gift to Kathryn Hardy Burrell from her husband Wilfred Burrell. It was made in 1909 by the Waltham company. It has a very ornate gold Keystone case that has three kinds of gold in it. Wilfred said that it was the most beautiful watch case he had ever seen.

Watch # 42: Wilfred gave this watch to his son Craig about 1975. It is an Illinois, Aristocrat model serial number M3988090 made in 1919. The gold filled case was made by the Wadsworth company and it came with a 25 year warranty.  It has a 17 jewel movement.

Watch # 44: This elegant watch was made by the Hamilton company and sold under the Anderson Brothers and Company brand in 1898. The case number is C58154 and the movement number is M474795. It is a size 18 with a 23 jewel movement and it is in a gold filled hunting case.

Watch # 100:This unusual watch was given to Wilfred’s daughter Connie. It is a size 6 with a Waltham movement serial number M32623380. It was made in 1945. It has a 17 jewel movement and a very unusual blue case.


These are old watches with English Lever movements. They were made in the mid 1800s.