Pictured: c.1900 St. Charles Unsweetened Cream Watch Dial, Fitted on Elgin 6-Size Grade 95 Movement. The advancement of transfer techniques for marking dials in the late 19th century provided new.
In the late 1890s, photography studios and jewelry supply companies capitalized on the growing trend of applying photographs to watch dials and cases. This novel feature was accomplished by a.
Pictured: Roman Numeral Dial on Elgin “Export” Watch, Grade 475, c.1922. Once new transfer and photographic techniques were mastered by the American watch companies, Arabic Numeral dials grew in popularity.
Elgin Grade 91 movement behind the dial featured in yesterday’s post. While factory records list a single run of 1,000 serial numbers designated for the Grade 91, it is estimated.
In June 1886, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company established new requirements for dials, specifying that the figures 13 to 24 must accompany the conventional hour indicators, aligning with the newly-adopted.
Pictured: “The Wells Dial” c.1900 One particularly interesting design proposed in response to the standard time adopted by the railroad industry is “The Wells Dial.” This unique dial exhibits one.
