In this video, we discuss how to determine whether an enamel pocket watch dial is hand-painted or produced using a transfer or photographic process. The larger American watch factories developed transfer processes in the mid-1880s, eventually leading to the end of hand-painted dials for standard...
Elgin
c.1904 Elgin 239 Veritas with the Original Box and Certificate Card: Dial c.1904 Elgin 239 Veritas with the Original Box and Certificate Card. 18-Size, Model 8, 21 Jewels, and Hunter's.
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Photo by Simona Sergi on Unsplash Did you know the Elgin National Watch Company used more than 40 loaves of fresh bread each day? The Baltimore SunBaltimore, Maryland19 Jan 1908, Sun • Page 13 From the January 19, 1908 issue of The Baltimore Sun: "Bread to Clean...
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[A brief departure from our ongoing study of the Burlington Watch Company] Pictured: Grade 8 M.D. Ogden Movement #257048, c.1873. Yesterday’s post told the story of how Mahlon D. Ogden’s.
Pictured: Illustration of the Ogden Mansion After the Fire, 1871 (top). Stereoscopic View - Mahlon D. Ogden Mansion, After the Great Chicago Fire, Published by W.D. Fay & Co., 1871 (bottom). [A brief departure from our ongoing study of the Burlington Watch Company] One of...
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Pictured: “Our $1,000 Challenge” Burlington Watch Company Catalog, c.1911. The time-keeping challenge presented to the Elgin and Waltham factories by the Burlington Watch Company was not a novel concept, despite.
Pictured: “$1,000 Burlington Challenge” Burlington Watch Company Catalog, c.1911. To further position the “Burlington Watch” against the watches offered by the largest watch factories in America, the Burlington Watch Company issued an open challenge to Elgin and Waltham to “prove their watches [were] equal in...