When introduced in March 1901, the “Veritas Model” was equipped with a new safety barrel, offering an effective replacement for the safety pinion used on older models. The barrel design,.
When the new “Veritas Model” was introduced in 1901, the Elgin National Watch Company boasted about the “extra heavy balance wheel” driven by a mainspring one-third wider and fifty-percent longer.
Excerpt from Elgin’s 1901 “The Watch Word is Elgin: Timemakers and Timekeepers” promotional booklet, describing the features of the mainspring in the new “Veritas” model: “The mainspring itself is one.
Excerpt from Elgin’s 1901 “The Watch Word is Elgin: Timemakers and Timekeepers” promotional booklet, describing the features of the mainspring barrel and click in the new “Veritas” model: “In winding.
Excerpt from Elgin’s 1901 “The Watch Word is Elgin: Timemakers and Timekeepers” promotional booklet, describing the jewels in the new “Veritas” model: “Watch jeweling is often a beclouded subject, mystifying.
Excerpt from Elgin’s 1901 “The Watch Word is Elgin: Timemakers and Timekeepers” promotional booklet, describing the features of the hairspring in the new “Veritas” model: “All hairsprings used in the.
