Comments on: Secret Message Found in Lincoln’s Watch

By: A Thousand Words - KV Taylor – SpecFic and Nonsense

A Thousand Words - KV Taylor – SpecFic and Nonsense — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:50:35 +0000

[...] there– they showed you the open face, and then a picture of the innards, which have an awesome story attached to them. If you don’t feel like reading the whole thing, the quick version is that there’s an [...]

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Human Society In Its Environment. » Blog Archive » History Links — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:04:29 +0000

[...] Message Found in Lincolns Watch [...]

By: MPPdotORG

MPPdotORG — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:11:08 +0000

Supposedly I’m related to Lincoln. My great great great great grandfathers second cousin, on my fathers side, if I’m not mistaken.

By: Terry O'Conor

Terry O'Conor — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:38:54 +0000

For the rest of the story (which turns out to be “old news”)

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Lincolns-Pocket-Watch-Reveals-Long-Hidden-Message.html

Happy travels

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:20:24 +0000

How strange I am just came accross this article because I opened a watch and found engraved – numbers & letters all along inside the back coverplate. They are hand engraved in the curve of the back coverplate -not stamped. Very small – not part of the numbers and manufacture information. Watch is a gold pocket watch – probaly 1890 to 1930 – hey I don’t know but what could these numbers and letters mean…anyone? Is there a watch historian out there? This watch was opened twice before by an appraiser and my brother and was never noticed – until my niece was over my shoulder and said, “Hey what are all those numbers?”

Never noticed it nor did anyone else. Any inof on this would be helpful.

By: Q marks the spot - Treasure Map 7 (Apr 2009) « Quaerentia

Q marks the spot - Treasure Map 7 (Apr 2009) « Quaerentia — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:02:06 +0000

[...] Abraham Lincoln’s pocket watch bears a secret message inscribed by his watch repairer! [...]

By: Beth Py-Lieberman

Beth Py-Lieberman — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:37:39 +0000

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Sarah — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:21:06 +0000

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By: Charles Williams

Charles Williams — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:05:25 +0000

Here is what is truly amzing about this story…the great great (great?) grandson of Edmund Ruffin who fired the first shot at Fort Sumpter to start the war lives in Antioch, IL and last I new was also selling real estate!

By: George Michaels

George Michaels — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:08:28 +0000

So, does that mean that Lincoln was part of the Davinci code?

By: Levi

Levi — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:28:35 +0000

This is great. The first thing I thought of, as cheesy as it may sound, was the National Treasure movie, the second one, with the secret diary and such. Anyway, that was a great read and will share it with any I can. What is all the other writing in there? Looks like more than the one phrase.

By: Dana Allen-Greil

Dana Allen-Greil — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:36:29 +0000

We’ve posted video from the event on the National Museum of American History “O Say Can You See” blog: http://blog.americanhistory.si.edu/osaycanyousee/2009/03/a-hush-fell-over-the-room-as-the-watchmaker-halted-his-work-a-partially-dismantled-pocket-watch-that-once-belonged-to-pres.html

By: Justin Chamberland

Justin Chamberland — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:27:30 +0000

On attending a receient induction into a new job i met a lady who once worked for Omega. She told a story of inscribing her phone number (instead of the serial number) on the inside of the watch that was going to Daniel Craig for his role as James Bond.. True or not i am unsure, but she seemed truthfull..

By: Mark Lester A. Iragana

Mark Lester A. Iragana — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:06:11 +0000

I like your site, it is very informative. Thank you for your time and good day.

By: David Upton

David Upton — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:20:35 +0000

L. E. Gross is very probably Louis Edward Gross, age 22 or 23 when he inscribed his name and “Jeff Davis” in Lincoln’s watch. He worked for Joseph M. Walter a jeweler in 1860, listed at 58 N. Howard St., Baltimore, Maryland in 1857 and later at 85 N. Eutaw St. in 1879. L. E. Gross died around 1870. He may have had several brothers in the Confederate military service. Mr. Dillon is listed on the 1870 New York census and may have moved by 1864 from the Washington area.