The book is available at libraries, at most major booksellers and online at the NAWCC Gift Shop (ask about the current edition). A new edition comes out each year in January or February, so ask for the latest edition. Shugart, Tinderbox Press, Mount Pleasant, SC, 2012. Alternately, check the value in the Complete Price Guide to Watches, No 32, R. As an alternative, knowing the proper description of your watch (which hopefully we can provide) you should be able to use a Google Search to find similar watches offered by internet dealers, or on eBay, and see what they are selling for. Should you wish, there is a valuation forum entitled “ What do you think it is worth?” Click on the Value Seeker drop down menu on the Subscription Page to find the current fee for the use of this service. I'm sorry to say that as it is noted in the " No Value Requests" in the top menu bar, we do not discuss the values of horological items in the educational forums. This way, the watch has real family heritage instead of it just being an old family watch, the identity and relationship of the original owner having been lost in the distant past. Even though they may not be readable 100 years from now, some more recent descendent may transfer the files to the then current format and media. You might even include a CD or, better yet, a USB thumb drive with copies of the pictures or information, in addition to the printouts. Make up a booklet with this and all of the watch information and try to keep it with the watch. Then, add the names and relationships of the family members who passed it down to the current holder. Having gathered and printed out information about a family watch, it is a wise idea to write out as much as you know about the family member to whom the watch originally belonged - or as far back as you can go, including (and clearly identifying) what you can guess. The Encyclopedia article on Choosing a Pocket Watch Repair Person may be useful as well.
It may be helpful for you to read the Encyclopedia article on Watch Service and its related links, especially the one to the message board thread on the subject. Unless you know that it has been cleaned and oiled within the last few years, you should have the watch serviced before running it very much. Your watch case is gold-filled and was made by the Keystone Watch Case Co., Howard's owner. If I had to guess, I'd put it someplace in the early 1920s, but I could be way off. date tables that will get you closer, but I wouldn't put too much faith in them.
It should be marked "Pat'd '12" If so, it was made some time between that date and 1930 when the company ceased production.
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Encyclopedia article and a data base maintained by Ed Ueberall and myself (and to be confirmed upon seeing your pictures), Howard movement serial number 1057982 can be seen to be a 12-size, Series 7, 17-jewel, open face movement.
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