Pocket Watch Case

Up for sale is a really beautiful antique Elgin Veritas 18s Rail Road pocket watch. It is all original (apart from the case) and a Grade 214, made in 1900. It has a beautiful very high grade movement with 23 jewels! It is in a richly decorated gold filled case, which is in excellent condition! Movement : This watch runs great and keeps very good time. The beautiful original lever set movement is in excellent condition, and has 23 ruby jewels, adjusted to 5 positions, temperature and isochronism. It has a jeweled motor and sapphire pallets, with gold screw settings, gold balance weights and all gold gear train! This is an especially beautiful movement! Dial : The original double sunk dial is in excellent condition with just a tiny center chip. The hands are also original. Case : The lovely decorated gold filled case is in excellent condition and it has a nice glass crystal. The covers do not screw on but pop on and off and they work as they should. This amazing watch is ready to display or carry! The item “Antique 18s Elgin Veritas hi-grade 23j Rail Road pocket watch 1900. Lovely case” is in sale since Friday, December 22, 2017. This item is in the category “Jewelry & Watches\Watches, Parts & Accessories\Pocket Watches\Antique”. The seller is “tuff_tuff01″ and is located in Mount Enterprise, Texas. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Brand: Elgin
• Serial Number: 8401191
• Age: 1900
• Case Material: gold filled
• Pocket Watch Size: 18
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Number of Jewels: 23 Jewels
• Model: Veritas Grade 214
• Movement: Rail Road grade
• Year of Manufacture: 1900-1909

Up for sale is a beautiful 16 size antique Elgin Veritas Rail Road pocket watch. It is a Grade 375, made in 1912. It is all original except for the case and has a lovely high grade movement which is in excellent condition! Movement : This watch runs well and keeps very good time. The beautiful original Rail Road grade movement is lever set and has 21 jewels , adjusted to 5 positions. It has lovely ruby jewels, gold screw settings, and gold balance weights! It is really beautiful and is in excellent condition! Dial : The double sunk dial is the original and is in very good condition with just a small crack at the 7. Case : The very nice gold filled Fahy’s Montauk case is in very good condition but is not the original. The lids screw on and off as they should, though they are a little stiff. This is a really beautiful watch! This lovely watch is ready to carry or display. The item “Antique 16s Elgin Veritas 21j Rail Road pocket watch 1912. Nice case! Runs great” is in sale since Friday, October 27, 2017. This item is in the category “Jewelry & Watches\Watches, Parts & Accessories\Pocket Watches\Antique”. The seller is “tuff_tuff01″ and is located in Mount Enterprise, Texas. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Brand: Elgin
• Serial Number: 16092315
• Country Made: USA
• Age: 1912
• Case Material: gold filled
• Country of Manufacture: United States
• Number of Jewels: 21 jewels
• Pocket Watch Size: 16
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Model: Veritas Grade 375
• Movement: Rail Road grade
• Year of Manufacture: 1910-1919

Up for sale is a beautiful 16s Elgin Veritas pocket watch. It was made in 1918 and has a very nice Rail Road grade 23 jewel movement, that is in excellent condition and runs great and keeps very good time. It is in a beautiful gold filled case with a stag decoration. Movement : This pocket watch is in very good running condition and it keeps very good time. The original beautiful Rail Road grade movement has 23 jewels, adjusted to 5 positions. It has a double roller, gold center wheel, gold screw settings and gold balance weights. This movement is in very good condition! Dial : The original double sunk Montgomery dial also is in very good condition but has a slight hairline. Case : The lovely gold filled B & B case is not the original, and is beautifully decorated with a stag design. It is in very good condition, with just a few light dings. Everything works like it should. This beautiful watch is ready to display or carry! The item “Antique 16s Elgin Veritas 23j Rail Road pocket watch 1918. Beautiful stag case” is in sale since Friday, May 26, 2017. This item is in the category “Jewelry & Watches\Watches, Parts & Accessories\Pocket Watches\Antique”. The seller is “tuff_tuff01″ and is located in Mount Enterprise, Texas. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Brand: Elgin
• Country Made: USA
• Age: 1918
• Case Material: gold filled
• Number of Jewels: 23 jewels
• Pocket Watch Size: 16
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Serial Number: 20146110
• Model: Veritas
• Year of Manufacture: 1910-1919
• Movement: Rail Road grade

Up for sale is a really beautiful 18 size high grade Elgin Veritas Rail Road pocket watch that was made in 1905. It is a Grade 214 and has an especially beautiful 23 jewel movement. It is in a beautifully decorated gold filled case. This special watch is in excellent condition! Movement: This watch runs great and keeps very good time. The really beautiful high grade original movement has 23 jewels, adjusted to 5 positions, temperature and isochronism. It has beautiful ruby jewels, a diamond end stone, an all gold train, gold center wheel, gold screw settings and gold balance weights!! This is a lovely movement and it is in great condition! Dial : The double sunk dial is in great condition but has some hairlines. Case : The gold filled case is beautifully decorated and is in very good condition, but is not the original. The covers work like they should. This is a really great watch! This beautiful watch is ready to carry or display. The item “Antique 18s Elgin Veritas hi-grade 23j Rail Road pocket watch 1905. Lovely case” is in sale since Friday, May 19, 2017. This item is in the category “Jewelry & Watches\Watches, Parts & Accessories\Pocket Watches\Antique”. The seller is “tuff_tuff01″ and is located in Mount Enterprise, Texas. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Brand: Elgin
• Serial Number: 11037109
• Age: 1905
• Case Material: gold filled
• Number of Jewels: 23 jewels
• Pocket Watch Size: 18
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Year of Manufacture: 1900-1909
• Model: Veritas Grade 214
• Movement: Rail Road grade

Raised Gold Screw Settings. Adjusted # of Positions. A Quick History of the Elgin National Watch Company. Elgin was founded in 1864, right as the civil war was coming to an end. The first watch Elgin made, an 18 sized B W Raymond railroad grade watch, was finished in 1867 and over the next 100 years, they went on to produce about 60 million watches. Elgin produced their first wristwatch around 1910, leading most other American watch companies by many years. Elgin was originally called the “National Watch Company”. The name never really stuck and in 1874, they changed their name to the “Elgin National Watch Company” because most of the watch trade and public were calling them “watches from Elgin”. They kept that name until the late 1960s when they stopped producing watches and changed their name to the “Elgin National Industries”. Elgin was founded on the idea of mass producing high quality pocket watches using machine made, interchangeable parts. Up until around 1850, watches were made mostly by hand, which meant that if a part broke, you had to find someone with the tools and skill to make a new part. Elgin never made the very highest quality watches in the world, nor did they make the very cheapest, but together with Waltham (aka The American Watch Company), they dominated the vast middle ground of the watch market. Today, collecting Elgin watches is quite popular. Because Elgin produced so many watches and produced so many spare parts, they can still be easily bought and fixed, so even a 100 year old Elgin can be used, with care, on a daily basis. While mechanical watches can’t compete with quartz watches for accuracy, there is something about having a watch that ticks that a quartz watch just can’t replace. The incorporators were Philo Carpenter, Howard Z. In September of 1864 a visit was made by some company representatives to the Waltham Watch Co. And seven of their key people where lured away to work for the newly formed company and they were nicknamed the Seven Stars. Since turn about is fair play, Elgin lost several of the Seven Stars to the Illinois Watch Co. A few years later in 1869. The Seven Stars were all machinists first and watchmakers second. One of these men was Charles S. Moseley and he became the factory’s first superintendent. He had been in the watch business since 1852. The Elgin businessmen had been informed that if they wanted the company to be located in Elgin they would have to donate 35 acres of land. The requested location for the company was on a farm with absentee owners. The first movement was delivered from the factory April 1, 1867 and was named in honor of Benjamin W. It was an 18 size, key wind, and full plate, with quick train and straight-line escapement arranged to set on the face and was adjusted to temperature. At that time watches took six months to complete and the B. On July 16, 1867, a new watch was made and it was named the H. The slow train was then adopted on all the new movements brought out and they appeared on the market as follows; J. Ryerson, October 14, 1867; H. Taylor, November 20, 1867; G. Wheeler, November 26, 1867 and Matthew Laflin, January 2, 1868. Laflin and Ryerson both sat on the Elgin’s board of directors and Laflin’s family did so for more than 70 years. On May 20, 1869 the first “Lady Elgin” made its appearance and was the first of a series of 10 size movements and it was also key wind. This was followed on August 24, 1870 by the Francis Rubie, which was adjusted to temperature, on September 8, 1871 by the Gail Borden (of Elsie fame) and on December 20, 1871 by the Dexter Street. The customer would pick out the case of his choice, add the dial and then the jeweler would put them together. The first stem wind movement was placed on the market June 28, 1873. On May 12, 1874 during a special stockholder’s meeting held in Chicago, the name of the company was changed to The Elgin National Watch Company. This was thought to be advisable because the movements manufactured by the company were universally known as and called “Elgin Watches” or the “Watch from Elgin”. In 1888 the factory was producing about 7,500 movements per week, about one fifth of which were key wind and one tenth of the movements were nickel. The factory had 2,300 employees at this time and they were split 50/50 between men and women but not so their pay. During World War I the United States Army had the Elgin factory train more than 350 men to make the precision repairs required in the battlefields. It was during the Second World War that all civilian work was stopped and Elgin made military watches, chronometers for the U. Navy, fuses for artillery shells, altimeters and instruments for aircraft and sapphire bearings used in the aiming of cannon. The Elgin Company was awarded ten Army-Navy “E” awards, for full filling contracts ahead of schedule. The Elgin Company diversified after World War II making decorator clocks, transistor radios, wedding rings, but the heart’s beat was the Elgin watch. That heart beat had been getting slower every year and Elgin ceased to depend on the watch factory as its main enterprise. The clock tower of the National Street plant was torn down October 7, 1966. The item “1903 Elgin 18s Veritas 23j Mdl 8 Pocket Watch Ruby Gold Set Century Silver Case” is in sale since Friday, March 24, 2017. This item is in the category “Jewelry & Watches\Watches, Parts & Accessories\Pocket Watches\Antique”. The seller is “harley-timespast” and is located in Grain Valley, Missouri. This item can be shipped to United States, to Canada, to United Kingdom, DK, RO, SK, BG, CZ, FI, HU, LV, LT, MT, EE, to Australia, GR, PT, CY, SI, to Japan, to China, SE, KR, ID, to Taiwan, TH, to Belgium, to France, to Hong Kong, to Ireland, to Netherlands, PL, to Spain, to Italy, to Germany, to Austria, RU, IL, to Mexico, to New Zealand, SG, NO, SA, UA, AE, QA, KW, BH, HR, MY, CO, BB, BD, BM, BN, BO, EC, EG, GF, GG, GI, GP, IS, JE, JO, KH, KY, LI, LK, LU, MC, MO, MQ, MV, NI, OM, PK, PY, RE.

• Year of Manufacture: 1900-1909
• Brand: Elgin
• Material: Silver
• Closure: Open Face
• Features: 12-hour Dial
• Escapement Type: Lever
• Movement: Mechanical: Hand-winding
• MPN: Veritas Grade 214
• Serial Number: 9889074
• Model: 8
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Country Made: USA
• Age: Antique (pre 1920)
• Case Material: Silver

1905 Elgin 18 Size Open Face Railroad Grade Pocket Watch. 23 Jewel Veritas Movement-Adjusted to 5 Positions #11037997. Double Sunk Porcelain Montgomery Dial with cracks/crazing-see pictures. Gold Train, Gold Screw Settings. Fahys Montauk 10K Gold Filled Case-nice condition with little spot of wear on back. Bow in nice condition. Crown in nice condition. Spade Hands-second hand missing. Hands Rotate properly when lever pulled out and crown turned. Balance swings freely but watch is wound tight. Watch runs when gently shaken, but not working consistently. Plastic crystal is loose. The item “1905 Elgin 18 Size RR Grade Pocket Watch Veritas Movement Fahys 10K Gold F Case” is in sale since Thursday, February 23, 2017. This item is in the category “Jewelry & Watches\Watches, Parts & Accessories\Pocket Watches\Antique”. The seller is “williemays” and is located in Reading, Massachusetts. This item can be shipped to North, South, or Latin America, to all countries in Europe, to all countries in continental Asia, to Australia, to New Zealand, EG, RE.

• Year of Manufacture: 1900-1909
• Brand: Elgin
• Material: Gold Plated
• Escapement Type: Lever
• Number of Jewels: 23 Jewels
• Movement: Mechanical (Hand-winding)
• Features: Montgomery Dial
• Pocket Watch Size: 18
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Model: 8
• Serial Number: 11037997
• Closure: Open Face

Up for sale is a very beautiful and all original 18s Elgin veritas, 23 Ruby jewel high grade Rail Road pocket watch. This watch was made in 1905. This watch runs very good and keeps very good time. This watch has a beautiful movement! This watch a has a very hard to find original Veritas Rail Road case. Movement : The watch is in very good running condition and it keeps very good time. The movement is all original. The movement has 23 jewels, a lever set, adjusted to 5 positions, Adjusted to temperature, adjusted to isochronism, gold jewel setting, gold balance weights, Gold gear, ruby jewels, diamond end stone, jeweled barrel, steel escapement, and a high grade regulator. This movement is all original. Elgin’s very best! Dial : The original Elgin double sunk dial is in very good condition. The dial has a hairline. Case : The original Veritas case is a very nice RR gold filled case. The case is in great condition. The covers screw on and off like they should. The case shows light normal pocket wear. The crystal is glass. This watch is ready to display or carry! The item “Antique Elgin 18s Veritas 23 jewel Rail Road pocket watch. Veritas case. 1905″ is in sale since Saturday, May 07, 2016. This item is in the category “Jewelry & Watches\Watches\Pocket Watches\Antique”. The seller is “tuff_tuff01″ and is located in Mount Enterprise, Texas. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Year of Manufacture: Pre-1920
• Brand: Elgin
• Movement: 23 jewel, 7 adjustments
• Country Made: USA
• Model: Rail Road
• Serial Number: 11820066
• Age: 1905
• Case Material: gold filled