By 1964, he had found exactly what he was looking for, a Hampden Watch Co. model 2 in the “Dueber Watch Co.” grade, made 70 years earlier in 1894, but languishing in an antique mall in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. It was a beautiful full-plate lever set movement and a perfect example of American watchmaking, with a heavy box-hinged, rose-toned, gold-filled hunter case and finished with a carving of a stag leaping across a frame on the back. Inside the exterior caseback, the watch even had its original warranty papers from the Dueber Watch Case Manufacturing Company, stating that the 10k gold-filled “Champion” model case was under warranty for 20 years – which had long since passed.