Lots of Blue Hampden

One of my recent purchases. I try and stay away from pocket watches but I keep getting sucked back into them. I tend to have a weakness for Hampdens as well. Some rather uncommon movements out there and people seem to never notice them.

This is a 16s 17j grade 240 made for W. J. Johnson in 1908. 1 run of 1000 in that year only is the total production. So far this is the only watch where steel parts being blued to this extent I have seen. Screws, escapement wheel, pallet fork, regulator, balance wheel arms, hairspring stud, and pinions have all been blued. If you look close at the tops of the train pinions, they are blue as well.

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