- ELGIN GOLD POCKET WATCH SERIAL NUMBER SERIAL NUMBER
- ELGIN GOLD POCKET WATCH SERIAL NUMBER FULL
- ELGIN GOLD POCKET WATCH SERIAL NUMBER FREE
(The serial number is NOT 734187 as mentioned in the write up, it is on the movement plate as 5857227)Ĭondition: Case – The outer case has sever amount of wear to the foliate engravings. The movement has eleven jewels, is pendant wound and lever set, going barrel, quick train, plain index regulator and bimetallic balance wheel.
ELGIN GOLD POCKET WATCH SERIAL NUMBER FULL
Movement: Size 18, full gilt plate, keyless movement, The Grade #`0, Model 3 Class 5 made by the Elgin National Watch Company of Elgin, Illinois with serial number 5857227, made in 1895 in a run of 3000 such movement. Case number is 8986096.ĭial: Round white enameled dial with black Roman hours, closed minute track, sunken subsidiary seconds dial American type steel Spade hands and the upper dial signed Elgin National Watch Company. The interior of the back cover is marked for the Montauk model case made by Fahys Watch Company (see History).
A fluted gilt ball pendant and round bow are placed at the three position (savonette) relative to the dial and opposite the case hinge. PROVENANCE: “originally owned by great-grandfather”ĬASE: Size 18, two leaf, polished back cover with engraved foliate designs in the style of the Art nouveau era, c. TITLE: Gent’s, Art nouveau, 18-size, gold filled, keyless, pendant wound and lever set, savonette, open face pocket watch, Grade 10, made by the Elgin National watch company, Elgin, Illinois, circa 1895. This way, the watch has real family heritage instead of it just being an old family watch, the identity and relationship of the original owner having been lost in the distant past.Thank you for sending in this family heirloom pocket watch for an appraisal to. Make up a booklet with this and all of the watch information and try to keep it with the watch. Then, add the names and relationships of the family members who passed it down to the current holder. Having gathered and printed out information about a family watch, it is a wise idea to write out as much as you know about the family member to whom the watch originally belonged. Of course, personal financial circumstances must be considered. Nobody can really advise you which way to go on this subject. Whatever it costs to service and repair a watch today, it will cost more (with parts being a little harder to find) ten, twenty or thirty years from now when you might want to pass it on to the next generation. It is quite another to be able to wear it (running and keeping reasonable time) on important occasions, especially family occasions. It is one thing to have and display grandfather's watch (perhaps in an inexpensive glass watch dome). However, when the watch is a family heirloom, the issue is much more difficult to judge, and depends upon one's sense of family history. It is normal to compare the cost of servicing and repairing a pocket watch to the value of that watch as a collectable in order to decide whether or not to have the work done.
Watch service is probably going to cost a lot more than the watch is worth as a collectable item. The Dueber Special grade of case was a gold-filled case. Your watch case was made by the Dueber Watch Case Manufacturing Co. You can see a picture of the movement (which helps confirm the information), a catalog description and where it fit in Elgin's line of ladies' watches on page 75 of the 1903 Oy Company Catalog. If one were to consider all jeweled watch movements as being separated into three grade groups low medium and high then this movement can be considered to be in the low-to-middle end of the medium grade group. 263, hunting-case movement, built around 1909. Doing so, it can be seen to be a ladies, 0-size, grade No.
serial number 14,602,229 can be looked up on Wayne Schlitt's website, as explained in the linked-to Wiki article. Welcome to the NAWCC American Pocket Watch Message Board!Įlgin Watch Co. =Assume general clean and lube is warranted
ELGIN GOLD POCKET WATCH SERIAL NUMBER FREE
=No engraving (except as above on circular outer frameĮscapement free but only does a few rotations, then stops) =Both outer hatches very ornate.inner hatch unengraved =Old English Style (?) initial 'P' on sheild on front hatch =Front hatch #'s match rear, "51966" on rear frame at 3 o'clock =Ser # 7951966 "Warranted 25 years "Dueber" (Inner rear hatch) ="Dueber" stamped in anchor sheild and "Special" (Outer rear hatch) ="Safety Pinion", Thin Black Roman Numerals on white face What's the approximate year of manufacture?. I just wanna know if it's worth the time and expense.Īny guesses on repair costs (see "repairs needed below)?. No luck with case or serial numbers, nuttin'.