Found my first pocket watch

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Found this in a park I've hit many times. This park is in a town that dates back to the late 1700's. I keep hoping to find old silver, but as far as coins go I've only found wheaties from the 50s. I was using the nox in field 1, 5 tones with 22 and up set on the highest pitch. I'm going along and I get a bouncy, but repeatable high tone. So I start digging. After I get down to 8 or 9 inches I'm getting a better signal, but still nothing. Finally my trx gets a signal and a few more inches I see what at first I think is an old metal doorknob. I pull it out and see it's an old pocket watch! This is the deepest target so far with the nox...an actual 11"! On the inside of the case it says silverode which is a trade name for a composite pocket watch metal.
 

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Nice find! All my watches went like that too. You think you have a large silver at 5 inches and a foot down you finally get to it. Sometimes I think I keep digging out of stubbornness but sometimes it pays off.
 
Really nice find .. Congrats on your first pocket watch and the persistence to dig that deep. I probably would have written it off as a can and moved on.
 
Please post pics of the inside if you can. Would love to see it cleaned up a little. Def on my bucket list, congrats!
 
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