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GeneJockey's Elgin Watch Blog: May 2013
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GeneJockey's Elgin Watch Blog. Collecting and Restoring Watches from Elgin's Last Three Decades. Monday, May 13, 2013. One sees Elgins in A-11 cases with 24 hour dials on Ebay all the time. Often, the title of the listing will say "WWII", despite the fact that the movement is one that was not made until 1950, and the serial number dates it to the same time. Of course, since these are billed as 'military', there's always SOMEbody willing to pay hundreds of dollars. Movements known to have been used for ca...
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GeneJockey's Elgin Watch Blog: Me and My Collecting
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GeneJockey's Elgin Watch Blog. Collecting and Restoring Watches from Elgin's Last Three Decades. Me and My Collecting. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). What $10 Will Get You. For A Few Dollars More. 50,000,000 Elgins! Me and My Collecting. A Whole 'Nother Size of Elgin. Wayne Schlitt's Elgin Database. Jeff Sexton's Elgintime Blog. Elgins Postwar 16 Size Pocket Watches. View my complete profile. Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.
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GeneJockey's Elgin Watch Blog: October 2012
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GeneJockey's Elgin Watch Blog. Collecting and Restoring Watches from Elgin's Last Three Decades. Sunday, October 21, 2012. A Whole 'Nother Size of Elgin. Prior to 1938, Elgin wrist watches simply had 'Elgin' on the dial. There was no way, short of knowing the models or peeking inside the back to know whether it was running a 7, 15, or 17 jewel movement. This is a 19j 451. Note 'Lord Elgin' on the train bridge. At the same time Elgin introduced the Elgin/Deluxe/Lord division, they also introduced a new li...
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GeneJockey's Elgin Watch Blog: September 2012
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GeneJockey's Elgin Watch Blog. Collecting and Restoring Watches from Elgin's Last Three Decades. Thursday, September 20, 2012. Still, my supplies of spare balances in good condition has been dwindling over time, and for some families of movements, I simply have none. At the same time, I've built up a backlog of balances that have good balance wheels, hairsprings, and roller tables, but have one or both pivots broken. One thing that stopped me was my lack of a staking set. Staking sets are de rigeur.
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GeneJockey's Elgin Watch Blog: March 2016
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GeneJockey's Elgin Watch Blog. Collecting and Restoring Watches from Elgin's Last Three Decades. Sunday, March 20, 2016. Elgin's Postwar 16 Size Pocket Watches. Between 1909 and 1945, Elgin's 16s watch movements came in two basic forms, whether Hunter or Open Face. On the left, you see the format used for watches to 17j (mostly - we are talking about Elgin, after all! It was not until 1944, however, that Elgin introduced alloy hairsprings and monometallic balances in their 16s BW Raymond models, with the...
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GeneJockey's Elgin Watch Blog: August 2012
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GeneJockey's Elgin Watch Blog. Collecting and Restoring Watches from Elgin's Last Three Decades. Saturday, August 25, 2012. In 1958, Elgin introduce the Durabalance. This technologically advanced balance wheel incorporated several features. The rim (A) was solid, rather than being drilled and tapped for balance screws. Poising was done by removing weight under the rim. The hairspring was a flat spiral, rather than a Breguet overcoil, and was free sprung. If you look at the balance cock, you'll see there'...
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GeneJockey's Elgin Watch Blog: Watchmaking
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GeneJockey's Elgin Watch Blog. Collecting and Restoring Watches from Elgin's Last Three Decades. For A Few Dollars More. What $10 Will Get You. Putting It Back Together. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). What $10 Will Get You. For A Few Dollars More. 50,000,000 Elgins! Me and My Collecting. A Whole 'Nother Size of Elgin. Wayne Schlitt's Elgin Database. Jeff Sexton's Elgintime Blog. Elgins Postwar 16 Size Pocket Watches. View my complete profile. Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.
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GeneJockey's Elgin Watch Blog: A Whole 'Nother Size of Elgin
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GeneJockey's Elgin Watch Blog. Collecting and Restoring Watches from Elgin's Last Three Decades. Sunday, October 21, 2012. A Whole 'Nother Size of Elgin. Prior to 1938, Elgin wrist watches simply had 'Elgin' on the dial. There was no way, short of knowing the models or peeking inside the back to know whether it was running a 7, 15, or 17 jewel movement. This is a 19j 451. Note 'Lord Elgin' on the train bridge. At the same time Elgin introduced the Elgin/Deluxe/Lord division, they also introduced a new li...
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GeneJockey's Elgin Watch Blog: June 2013
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GeneJockey's Elgin Watch Blog. Collecting and Restoring Watches from Elgin's Last Three Decades. Sunday, June 23, 2013. For A Few Dollars More - Part 5: Regulation and Casing. With your movement fully wound, and the regulator centered on the scale, you can regulate it. That is, you can set the rate so that the watch will neither gain nor lose time. At the same time, you can determine amplitude and beat error. And in this case I'm also lucky! Here's the initial trace that this 642 produced:. Slow REALLY s...
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GeneJockey's Elgin Watch Blog: Elgin's Postwar 16 Size Pocket Watches
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GeneJockey's Elgin Watch Blog. Collecting and Restoring Watches from Elgin's Last Three Decades. Sunday, March 20, 2016. Elgin's Postwar 16 Size Pocket Watches. Between 1909 and 1945, Elgin's 16s watch movements came in two basic forms, whether Hunter or Open Face. On the left, you see the format used for watches to 17j (mostly - we are talking about Elgin, after all! It was not until 1944, however, that Elgin introduced alloy hairsprings and monometallic balances in their 16s BW Raymond models, with the...
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