21 Ruby Jewels Converted from Santa Fe Route Movement Waltham made many movements for specific railroads which are called private label or contract watches. One of these railways was called Santa Fe Route. The movements were marked "Santa Fe Route" and were made with a gilt barrel bridge but were basicly Crescent Street movements. At some point, Waltham converted some of them back to Crescent Streets by milling out the words "Santa Fe Route" and inserting "Crescent St. Waltham" in the space. These movements have been reported in 2 runs; 7817001-8000, listed in the Gray Book as a run of 21 Jewel Crescent Street hunting case movements and 7902501-3000, a run of open face "Special" movements (see second table). Photos of some of the movements from the 7817001 run clearly show movements with the standard Crescent Street marking. Santa Fe Route and milled Crescent Streets have also been reported from the run. It breaks down as follows;
Open face Santa Fe Route movements have been reported in run 7902501-3000 listed in the Gray Book as a run of "Specials". It is believed that milled out Crescent Streets also exist but at the moment there is not concrete proof. Movements reported from the run are in the table below;
Hunting case movements with conversion dial This is another attempt by Waltham to use up existing inventory. By using a dial with the seconds bit at 3 o'clock, a hunting case movement could be used as an open face movement. These dials are also found on Vanguard and 845 movements. On the movement to the lower right, s/n 12652044, it is interesting to note the "Groove", which does not appear on Model 92s with consistency until the 17 millions.
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