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Pan American Hawk [message #19220]

Thu, 09 January 2025 23:23

JackW
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Model name: Pan American Hawk
Type: Strap #510, p. 139 of Shawkey's guide
Period/date: 1945-48(-ish)
Gender: Men's

Case Maker: Star Watch Case Co.
Case Material: Yellow Gold fill
Case Serial: 0139288
Case Style no: 420SS - 555

Caliber: 420ss
Movement Maker: Gruen
Movement Serial: A 869266

Bracelet: (na)

Other info:

The PA Hawk is mentioned in a different thread and the image is not the best. A recent review of any new ads added into the Newspaper.com database has this one for the PA Hawk, which seemingly isn't shown elsewhere on this or other forums*:
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I'll go further out onto the limb here and suggest that the case style (not the dial) is a match to this watch, with the Star Watch Case Co. made case:
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I've not seen this one ID'd elsewhere.

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Re: Pan American Hawk [message #19240 is a reply to message #19220]

Sat, 18 January 2025 04:16

JackW
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Decided that this should go into the reference threads. This is likely the most common post-war model that is seen on eBay after the PA Ace.

In addition, there are some watch collectors that have erroneously associated this watch, because of some similarities, with the one that is on the 1943 Pan Am advertisement. They are very different in construction and materials of the case.
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