I picked a ladies up for the wife on eBay back in 2009 as a Christmas gift. 1889 and the 14k case has “Charles to Rosie, Christmas 1889” calligraphied in it.
I got myself what I thought was an 1881/2 Hampton Duber on there around the same time. I was initially pissed when I got it because the guy had ended up listing the case # (irrelevant to age) rather than the movement # but the watch turned out to be a 1906 railroad grade with something like 27 jewels and was worth about 10X what I paid. That one will run about 36 hours on a wind and doesn’t lose a second.
Daddy brought back a gold cased pocket watch from WWII. I suppose it was valuable as there must have been several ounces of gold in it.
My Father purchased it from the Mayor of a German town. Daddy had done him some favors so I think he sold if for less than it was worth.
My older Brother got it from Daddy many years ago. His Son has it now. The one thing I recall about it was it only had 9 jewels.