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How do I tell what year my Elgin pocket watch is?
How To Identify Your Elgin Watch
- Check the serial number on the inner movement as it is the one you will need to identify your watch.
- Go to Pocket Watch Database and click Elgin on the Home tab.
- Enter the serial number of your watch.
- The result will let you identify the actual year it was made.
How can you tell the age of a pocket watch?
Remove or open the back cover from your watch and look for a number engraved into the movement; this is the serial number for your watch, and by using it, you can find the closest years it was made on these tables.
What are Elgin watch grades?
Elgin watch grades identify the level of quality to which they are finished. Elgin assigned a grade number to a movement of a specific size, jeweling and finish. If a change was made a different grade number would be assigned.
How do you date an old watch?
The best way to identify the date of manufacture of a watch is to locate the serial number on the watch’s movement. The movement is the spring-loaded mechanism the runs and regulates the timepiece. Comparing the number to the manufacturer’s listings can date the manufacture to the approximate year.
What’s the case serial number on an Elgin Watch?
For Elgin watches, case serial numbers on solid gold watches will usually be only 10% or less of the serial number on the movement. So, if someone is selling a watch as solid gold, and it has a movement serial number of, say, 3,870,123 and it has
Where was the first Elgin pocket watch made?
Pocket Watches. The rich history of the Elgin National Watch Company (originally the National Watch Co.) began in August 1864 when a group of investors traveled to Waltham, Massachusetts, home of the Waltham Watch Company.
When did the Elgin National Watch Company stop making watches?
This identical watch, serial number 101, was sold at auction in New York in 1988 for $12,000. In 1874, the company officially changed their name to the Elgin National Watch Company, and that name remained until they stopped producing watches in the 1960’s.
Why was the Elgin Watch important to WWI?
Elgin engineers built their own Observatory to maintain scientifically precise times in their watches. Later, their accurate “wristlet” watches proved to be vital to the WWI war effort, helping to fuel a craze back in the states for something called “The Wrist Watch.”