Welcome to our world, we're thrilled that you are part of it! Read more What our watchfam says. This is more than a business and KeepTheTime is more than a watch store. We pick them, handle them, photograph them, film them, research them, write about them, and then pack and ship them to their new wrists. Condition Details - running at time of evaluation without detailed testing, future state not guaranteed. You can also refer to an Elgin serial number chart. Enter the serial number into an online Elgin serial number database to obtain an instant result that lists its year of production. Determining the date of your Waltham pocket watch. Not only do we know watches, we know the watches we sell. Every Waltham watch produced since 1852 was engraved with a serial number. Harper’s magazine summed their sentiment perfectly: It was the genuine. In the spring of 1864 half a dozen ambitious Chicago businessmen decided that if Massachusetts could build a factory that built watches Illinois could, too. Not a day has gone by without watches being part of it. Elgin National Watch Company Serial Number, Elgin pocket watch. 10+ hours per day, usually 7 days per week, including holidays - family and friends have come to accept it. Let's face it, we're the awkard guests at the party secretly hoping for someone to say "nice watch" or walk past with a rad diver that only a WIS would recognize. To be humble about it would be disingenuous. For nearly 100 years the company's manufacturing complex in Elgin, Illinois, was the largest site. The company sold watches under the names Elgin, Lord Elgin, and Lady Elgin. To say we know watches would be an understatement. The Elgin National Watch Company, commonly known as Elgin Watch Company, was a major US watch maker from 1864 to 1968. Most vintage Swiss pocket watches did NOT have serial numbers and cant be dated by this method. Some American watch brands did not use a consistent series of serial numbers, but most of the big manufacturers did. You heard those stories before, so let's spare you a repeat. Not all vintage watches can be dated using the serial number. An 1899 Elgin Pocket Watch Here is a video presentation of my 1899 Elgin pocket watch, which traveled from the USA to England and then to Romania, where I bought it. Sometimes it feels like every watch site on the web has the same About Us page talking "passion" and stories about tinkering with grandad's old watch blah, blah, blah. 2008 | Buy/Sell/Trade | Worldwide Delivery not the serial number on the external case.EST. Your movement serial number may not be in exactly the same location as the one in the photo, but you are looking for the serial number that is on the watch mechanism itself.
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