Thanks, Pirate. When I was a kid, I sent away to the Waltham Watch Co. (which had been bought by Newell (of Rubbermaid fame). They sent me back a letter regarding the watch. In it, to the best of my recollection, they attributed the watch to around 1875 or 6 but after all these years it's quite possible that my memory is off by ten years or more and I just thought it was from around the time of the battle of the Little Big Horn.
I wish I had the letter but I have no idea where it is all these years later.
Strange thing is that the watch was stolen when our apartment in NYC was burglarized by some of my hoodlum ex-friends when I was away on a family vacation.
I prayed for its return, (I'm not particularly religious but I was very close with my grandfather who died in 1962 when I was still in elementary school.)
As fate would have it, my younger sister found it under a tree while playing in a small playground behind our apartment building. It must've been dropped and lain there for months before it was found. She was so excited she started screaming and my poor mother thought she was being attacked.
It sits on a desktop proudly in my home as a reminder of my dear grandfather who, when I asked him when I could have the watch, responded "All in good time".
Months later he was gone and my grandmother turned it over to me.
Very kind of you to go to the trouble on my behalf. I am in your debt.