c.1905 Elgin Grade 244
c.1905 Elgin Grade 244. This watch represents a sensible mid-range option offered by the Elgin National Watch Company in the early 1900s.
The movement is a 16-Size Model 7 with 17 jewels and Moseley’s patent micrometric regulator.
![c.1905 Elgin Grade 244, Model 7, 17-Jewels - Movement](https://blog.pocketwatchdatabase.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC00589-2-1024x1024.jpg)
According to grade descriptions in original catalogs, the Grade 244 was factory adjusted to temperature.
![Elgin Grade 244 Description from A.C. Becken 16th Annual Catalog (1907)](https://blog.pocketwatchdatabase.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Elgin-241-244-ACB1907-799x1024.jpeg)
While not a premium watch, the Grade 244 still features the artistry prominent during this era, exhibited by the elegant damakeening and engraving on the nickel plates.
![c.1905 Elgin Grade 244, Model 7, 17-Jewels - Dial](https://blog.pocketwatchdatabase.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DSC00601-1024x1024.jpg)
With an estimated production date of 1905, only one living person on earth was alive when this watch originally rolled off the production line at the Elgin factory – Lucile Randon, a 118-year-old French nun, born in February 1904.
![Lucile Randon](https://blog.pocketwatchdatabase.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Lucile-Randon.jpg)
Gn. I am a watch repairer by profession and has been doing this for the past 48 yrs.
I have worked on Elgin watches and think that they were meticulously made.
I would definitely rate them among the finest
I have one…just had it restored…listening to it tick flawlessly at 120 years old…
My name is George I work on these types I call them three finger pocket watches they are nice too work on I’ve doing watches for 45 years still love working on all kinds fun