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Properly a gold watch, but applied, in thievesʹ slang, to any watch.
Gold is often called red, hence “red ruddocks” (gold coin).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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