Elgin Father Time Pocket Watch Serial Numbers

You must give the letter prefix of the serial number if there is one.

Elgin father time pocket watch serial numbers. Or find out more information about your watch by conducting a serial number lookup. For more information see the watch serial number web page. The elgin national watch co. Father time was used as a trade name used on pocket watch movements manufacturered by elgin.

The serial numbers were allocated in runs or blocks of identical grade watches. The serial number must be off the movement of the watch where the gears are not off the case. Elgin national watch company was born. Elgin engineers built their own observatory to maintain scientifically precise times in their watches.

By 1910 word of elgin s obsession with precision had spread around the world. The inside says father time adjustment 5 positions 21 jewels and i think the serial number reads 20030729. For elgin watches case serial numbers on solid gold watches will usually be only 10 or less of the serial number on the movement. Make offer early 1884 elgin 18s 15j bw raymond railroad pocket watch salesman case accurate illinois bunn special type iii 60 hr.

Starting in the late 1930s elgin added a letter prefix to the serial numbers of some watches and around this time elgin also started to mark the grade number on some of the movements in addition to the. The first watch elgin made in 1867 had the serial number 101 and they continued to use serial numbers up into the 1950s. 21j 14k gold filled of 16s rr pocket watch 485 00. Elgin organized the serial numbers into runs of identical grade watches.

The watch was exquisite. These two serial numbers are unrelated. So if someone is selling a watch as solid gold and it has a movement serial number of say 3 870 123 and it has a case serial number of 1 073 678 a red flag should go up in your mind and you should be even more. Raymond 15 jewel 18s railroad watches grade number 69.

Elgin placed unique serial numbers on their watch movements.