Fahys pocket watch case3/14/2024 Watch is very clean inside and case is not personalized. The watch is 21 jewels, double sunk porcelain dial with one scratch or hairline crack on center of the seconds dial. Superintendent and retired as Assistant Division Superintendent. Perhaps the movements were made and stockpiled or perhaps the company bought a bunch of these to award as employees merited. I cannot date the case, but it's serial number is 7731926. The serial number leads me to believe that the watch was made in or around 1907 which would be just after he joined L & N in the early 1900s. According to a note with watch, it was a company gift in honor of 50 years service. Arthur B Lyon worked for the L & N railroad, Knoxville Div. We are preparing to pass along great grandfather's pocket watch to great grandson.
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