Sea Foam Green Fancy Elgin Dial with Gold Embellishments, c.1880s According to original enamel recipes, the colors on this fancy enamel dial were likely originally produced with Copper Oxide, Chromic.
c.1890 American Waltham Watch Co. Baseball Theme Dial Today's post celebrates the recent start of a new Major League Baseball season. In the late 1880s, as dial design techniques became.
Note: This original article has been revised to focus on the implementation of Rice & Gerry's patent in the early "Springfield" movements manufactured by the New York Watch Company following.
Women Workers from the South Bend Watch Company, Downtown South Bend, Indiana, c.1915 Watch companies often employed women to work in the factories. Smaller fingers were ideal for fine work.
Elgin Grade 91 Movement, 1.11 PWDB Relative Rarity Index The PWDB Relative Rarity Index aims to provide a quantified metric to convey how rare a particular movement is within the.
In addition to his elegant watch plate design, Edwin H. Perry received a patent for his stem-winding and setting mechanism on May 30, 1871. This mechanism was implemented when the.
