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Antique Elgin Pocket Watch, 1918
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Antique Elgin Pocket Watch, 1918

1900 - 1920
Description

Antique Elgin pocket watch, 1918.

The watch has a grade 291 stem-winding movement which is working nicely. The movement is fully signed and it has the serial number 20,570,335 which dates it back to 1918.

The watch measures 49mm diameter excluding the winding stem and the loop. The case is gold filled and is the Montauk model supplied to Elgin by the Fahys Watch Case Company. The case is in nice condition with just a small “ding” to the back, nothing too serious at all. The case has a screw on front and back.

The glass lens is in good condition (some white natural light reflection showing in the photos).

The signed dial looks good to the naked eye. There is a very faint short hairline between 4 and 5, it is just about visible through a jeweller’s loupe. Blued steel hands, a subsidiary seconds dial and an outer minute track with red 5 minute markers.

The watch comes in a new presentation box.

Declaration

The Vintage Wrist Watch Company has dated this Antique Elgin Pocket Watch to the 1910s.

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Description
Antique Elgin pocket watch, 1918.

The watch has a grade 291 stem-winding movement which is working nicely. The movement is fully signed and it has the serial number 20,570,335 which dates it back to 1918.

fig 1. An antique open-face Elgin pocket watch featuring a gold-toned case, white enamel dial with black Arabic numerals, red minute markers, and a sub-seconds dial at six oclock.
fig 1. Antique Elgin Pocket Watch, 1918

The watch measures 49mm diameter excluding the winding stem and the loop. The case is gold filled and is the Montauk model supplied to Elgin by the Fahys Watch Case Company. The case is in nice condition with just a small “ding” to the back, nothing too serious at all. The case has a screw on front and back.

fig 2. An antique open-face Elgin pocket watch featuring a gold-toned case, white enamel dial with black Arabic numerals, red minute markers, and a sub-seconds dial at six oclock.
fig 2. Antique Elgin Pocket Watch, 1918

The glass lens is in good condition (some white natural light reflection showing in the photos).

The signed dial looks good to the naked eye.

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There is a very faint short hairline between 4 and 5, it is just about visible through a jeweller’s loupe.
The Vintage Wrist Watch Company

Blued steel hands, a subsidiary seconds dial and an outer minute track with red 5 minute markers.

The watch comes in a new presentation box.

Date of Manufacture

The Vintage Wrist Watch Company has dated this Antique Elgin Pocket Watch to the 1910s.

Reference Numbers
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SA1204190
The Vintage Wrist Watch Company
The Vintage Wrist Watch Company
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Archive I An antique open-face Elgin pocket watch featuring a gold-toned case, white enamel dial with black Arabic numerals, red minute markers, and a sub-seconds dial at six oclock.

Antique Elgin pocket watch, 1918

Archive II An antique open-face Elgin pocket watch featuring a gold-toned case, white enamel dial with black Arabic numerals, red minute markers, and a sub-seconds dial at six oclock. View II
Archive III An antique open-face Elgin pocket watch featuring a gold-toned case, white enamel dial with black Arabic numerals, red minute markers, and a sub-seconds dial at six oclock. View III
Archive IV An antique open-face Elgin pocket watch featuring a gold-toned case, white enamel dial with black Arabic numerals, red minute markers, and a sub-seconds dial at six oclock. View IV
Archive V An antique open-face Elgin pocket watch featuring a gold-toned case, white enamel dial with black Arabic numerals, red minute markers, and a sub-seconds dial at six oclock. View V
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An antique open-face Elgin pocket watch featuring a gold-toned case, white enamel dial with black Arabic numerals, red minute markers, and a sub-seconds dial at six oclock.
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An antique open-face Elgin pocket watch featuring a gold-toned case, white enamel dial with black Arabic numerals, red minute markers, and a sub-seconds dial at six oclock.
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An open-face pocket watch features a glass crystal directly covering the dial without a protective metal cover, manufactured extensively by the Elgin National Watch Company in Illinois from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century.

These watches typically featured gold-filled, rolled gold plate, or solid gold cases, paired with vitreous enamel dials, blued steel hands, and precision mechanical movements with jewel bearings.

Authenticity is verified by inspecting the serial number stamped directly onto the movement, which can be cross-referenced with Elgin production databases to determine the precise year of manufacture and movement grade.

A pocket watch can be worn traditionally in a waistcoat or jacket pocket attached to an antique Albert chain, displayed under a glass cloche on a desk, or mounted on a watch stand for horological display.

Keep the timepiece free from moisture and strong magnetic fields, avoid over-winding the crown, and have the mechanical movement cleaned and lubricated by a qualified horologist every three to five years.
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