Why not for Hats?

As we sit here in the midst of the upheaval of this blog, I took a break from pulling my hair out over the D--- Sidebar to read some of Andy Ihnatko's {A Tech Journalist from Boston Chicago Apparently he lives in Mass. but exports his writing to the Chicago Sun Times.} Tweets

http://twitter.com/ihnatko

and I Came across this link:

http://www.onthedash.com/docs/obama.html

here is an excerpt:

Watch collectors are different. We watch movies, read magazines, and study videos -- not for the usual type of entertainment, not for the intended content -- but to see which watches the stars and celebrities are wearing. Whether we are looking for Steve McQueen with an "orange hand" Rolex, trying to identify Jerry Seinfeld's vintage Heuer Autavia, or seeing whether Paul Newman is wearing a "Paul Newman", we focus on the watches.

So why aren't there any people out there like that, but for Hats? There are just as many variations of Hats as there are of watches, and many hats have a Watch counterpart.  {Exempli Gratia: the Black Topper and a classy pocket watch} so where are you {as the "Hip People" say} my Brothers?

  Where?

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Sir Jacob D. Fredrickson Esq.

Chief Executive Officer of Early Bird Industries, Inc.

Pocket-Watch

I Have Recently acquired an awesome Pocket-Watch.  It works, so that's good, But it has a bit of mystery attached. Here is the back of the watch:

But here is the mysterious bit:

I popped the back off with my leatherman, and found these weird symbols. Now, I beseech you, the reader {Yes You} for information about these words.  Do you have an uncle that owns a watch shop? Buy alot of watches yourself? Just happen to know what these words mean?  For those of you that can't read the picture for one reason or another this is the tranliteration:
ADVANCE WATCH CO., LTD.
CHINA
AWCLTWY

What is it that I want you ask? Any Information Regarding the advance Watch Co., Ltd. {Point me to a website if you want, If it's relevant, it's not spam} And any guesses as to what AWCLTWY means.

Thanks!

-=Best Regards=-

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Sir Jacob D. Fredrickson Esq.

Chief Executive Officer of Early Bird Industries, Inc.