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1939 Elgin Catalog
1939 Elgin Catalog, 1
1939 Elgin Catalog, 2
1939 Elgin Catalog, 3
Elgin Model Reference
Elgin Model Reference, 0 Size
Elgin Model Reference, 10 Size
Elgin Model Reference, 10/0s
Elgin Model Reference, 12 Size
Elgin Model Reference, 14 Size
Elgin Model Reference, 16 Size
Elgin Model Reference, 17 Size
Elgin Model Reference, 18 Size
Elgin Model Reference, 3/0 Size
Elgin Model Reference, 5/0 Size
Elgin Model Reference, 6 Size
Elgin Named Movements
ElginHands14s
ElginHands16s
ElginHands1817sKS
ElginHands18sSS
Hamilton Staffs
How to Determine the Size of a Watch
London Date Hallmarks
Monograms
Monograms, Index 1
Monograms, Set 2
Monograms, Set 3
Monograms, Set I
Portfolio of Watch Selling
What are Elgin's Grade, Class and Model Designations?
The Elgin National Watch Company
The Elgintime Museum
Spotting Slackers
Vintage Articles, Brochures and More
Collecting Old Watches
Connecticut Clockmaking
Guillaume
Otto Young & Co
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Simon Willard
WatchmakerAccuracy
Vintage News
Even More Vintage Horological Articles
17 Leading Publications Used By Elgin to Boom Graduation Watch Buying
A Chat With H. E. Anderson
A Horological Review
A Survey On Come-Backs
A Watch For A Giantess
A Watch For A Giantess
An Easy Way to Remove Broken Guard Pins
An Horologist
An Interesting Old Tool
Beryl-X Balances
Cooperation
Do You Know?
Do You Know?
Do You Know?
Electric Clock Runs for More Than 40 Years
Elgin Expands, Acquires New Plant In Nebraska
Elgin Expands, Acquires New Plant In Nebraska
Elgin Inaugurates Xmas Campaign in National Magazines
Elgin Opens Spring Season with 19 New Watches for Men
Elgin to Build Observatory for New York Fair
Elgin Watch Company Entertains Royally
Explanation of Terms Used in Connection With the Detached Lever Escapement
F. Berthoud Escapement
Fastening the Hair Spring Stud
Hairspring Expert Uses Seven Vibrators
Holding Small Hands
Is the Jeweler's and Watchmaker's Job a Strain on the Eyes?
J. H. Bledsoe to Market New Hairspring Vise
Making Second Hands Friction Tight
Manufacture of Timepieces in Italy
Master Watchmakers' Association of Oregon
Mr. A. C. Hentschel
Mystery Clock
National Watch Inspection Week
New Binocular Loupe
New Manning-Bowman Electric Table Broiler
New Resinoid Watch Crystals Now Available
Nine New Elgin DeLuxe 17 Jewel Models Take the Spot Light
Occupational Deferment Notice
Pinning Hairsprings
Polishing Jewel Settings
Progress
Proposals
Question Box
Question Box
Question Box
Question Box
Question Box
Question Box
Removing Hairsprings
Replacing Guard Pins
Retailers' Tie-In Campaigns Hitting New Highs, Elgin Finds
Rusted Hairsprings
Save That Clock
Service Bulletin Released
Setting Roller Jewels
Sharpening The Graver
Spring Officially Ushered in at New York Fair
That Hard to Find Knock
The Enthusiasm For Legislation Grows
The Guarantee of Watch Performance
The Price of Time Went Up
The Problem of the "Comeback"
Third Annual Convention Banquet
Tightening Cannon Pinions with Plugged Ends
Unusual Electric Clock Showing International Time
Wake Up The Easy Way
Wake Up The Easy Way
Watch Mainsprings
Watch Out!
Watches Presented to Lord and Lady Elgin
Watchmaker for Seventy-Two Years
More Vintage Horological Articles
"Cleaning," At Bargain Prices
"No American Watch" Situation Denounced
"Perpetual Motion" Clock Run by Changes of Temperature
5,000,000,000 Kilowatt Hours
A Letter From The Department of Commerce
A Mainspring for This and a Staff for That
A Practical Course of Instruction in The Science of Horology
A Practical Course of Instruction in The Science of Horology Or The Construction and Repair of Time-Measuring Instruments
A Study in Time
Alarm Clocks - Quarterly Shipments, 1943 and 1944
An Injury at The Factory
An Unusual Clock Built By a Bradley Student
Anti-Rust Soap
Antique Clock
Antique English Clock
Atomic Jewelry
Barber and Clocks
California Scientists and Horologists Welcome Maker of Free Pendulum Clocks
Challenge Yourself To Become A Better Merchant
Cleaning Solutions
Closing Train Holes
Consider the Benefits
Demagnetizing Without Heating
Do You Know?
Each watch must have a mainspring 200 inches long in it
Elgin Announces Its Special Anniversary Line
Elgin Employees Visit Fair
Elgin Executive Retires After 53 Years
Elgin Extends Fair Trade Contracts Into All States Having Fair Trade Laws
Elgin Issues New Catalog
Elgin Makes a Special Offer
Elgin Makes a Special Offer
Employees Given Vacations
Engagement Rings For Men
Files
Finding the Correct Length for Mainsprings
Finds Pleasure At The Bench
Fluorescent Mercury "Daylight" Now Available to Horologists
G. I. Finds Fabulous Diamond Treasure
Gala War Show
Graduation Advertising
Gruen Swiss Plant Official Flies Here
Guaranteeing Watch Performance
Hamilton Fights Added Trade-Mark Infringement
Heinrich Johannes Kessels
Helps Legislators Recall Days
Henry Diehl, Deceased
Henry E. Warren
How And Why Did I Become a Watchmaker?
How I Turn a Staff
How Much For Cleaning?
How Watch Manufacturers Might Help the Watchmaker and the Customer
Human Clocks
Imports Seen Detrimental
Information Please!
Information Please!
Information Please!
Information Please!
Informing the Public
Injunction Against Price Cutter Granted
Jeweler's Hobby Is Watches
Licensing Bills Need Approval of Entire Industry
Luck Restores Lost Watch
Mainsprings - The Motor of Watches
Marshall Introduces New Cement for Unbreakable Crystals
Miniature lathe
Need For Improvement in Mainspring Winders Stressed
New Elgin "Zephyrs" Offer Outstanding Watch Values
New Hamilton Watch Numbers
Old Watches On Exhibition
Opening of Elgin Exhibit Announced
Organizer Blocks Legislation
Picking A Good Watch
Pivoting
Post-War German Production
Pro and Con
Putting A Mainspring in the Barrel
Question Box
Question Box, Going and Motor Barrels
Questions and Answers for the Certified Horologist
Radio Watches
Reader Believes In Airing Gripes - And Does!
Reader Disagrees With Method of Repivoting Arbor
Reader Tells of Method To Safeguard Against Fire
Rebuilt?
Removing Broken Screws
Second Hand Watches
Seeking Profits
Skin Troubles From Wearing Jewelry
SlickJewelry Store Burglar Nabbed
So You Haven't Any Alarm Clock?
Students Build Timepieces
Swiss Watches For Allied Leaders
Tennessee Horologist Constructs Watch
The Adventure of The Insolvent Buyer
The American School of Watchmaking
The Collector
The Importance of Timing
The Mainspring
Time As a Hobby
U.S. Radium Applies Wartime Experience To Improve Radium Dials
Wagon Spring Clock
Waltham Watch Company Awarded Army-Navy "E"
Waltham Watch Company Executive Staff Dinner
Watch Bench Problems
Watch Dirt
Watch Trouble
Watches Fail to Rate Properly
Waterman Company News
What Is to Be Gained by Watchmakers' Union?
Why Guarantee A Watch For A Year?
Why Perfume Will "Stop A Clock"
Women Producing At National Watch
You Can Always Get Diamonds!
Still More Vintage Horological Articles
Accredited Horological Schools
Alarm Clocks
Information Please!
Life of Watch 3 Months In Southwest Pacific
Material Supply
New Transcontinental Speed Record Set By Two Army Planes, Timed Exclusively By Longines
The Making Of A Balance Staff
The Separation of Static and Dynamic Beat
To Prevent Oil From Creeping
Unfair Market practices Stopped
WATCHMAKER LICENSING AND AMERICAN NATIONAL RETAIL JEWELERS ASSOCIATION
Vintage Horological Articles
"Fringe is Fashion" Keynote of Kreisler Promotion
"Mystery" Watch, Light in Display
$50,000 Worth of Time Clocks
1,500 Year-Old Ring
A New Field of Clock Repairing
A Practical Course in Position Adjusting
A Practical Course of Instruction in The Science of Horology
A Practical Course of Instruction in The Science of Horology
A Practical Course of Instruction In The Science of Horology
A Practical Course of Instruction In The Science of Horology
A Tickless Clock
Adjusting Bar and It's Use
Advice To Young Jewelers
Again, Elgin Enforces Fair Trade Contract
Alma Service Company Offers Extensive Repair Service
Altering and Fitting Stems
An Adjustable Watch Case Wrench
An Exception
An Old Bofton Watch Maker
An Outstanding Collector Enters Service
Another Waltham Scoop
Artificial Arms Equipped With Watches
At The Sound of the Gong
Attend An Accredited School
Automatic-feed Soldering Iron Being Introduced
Belgian Wonder Clock
Book Reviews
Buying Material By Metric System
C. and E. Marshall Co. Operates On 40 Hour - 5 Day Week
Can You Help? Lets Not Let Him Down
Casing
Cementing a Roller Jewel
Central Arizona Guild Member Averts Phoenix Robbery
Chimes
Chinese Eye Watch
Clock-Stopping
Consumer Advertising for Ingersoll's Sweep Second Watches
CPA Report on Tin Conservation
Davidson's Precision Clock
Denver Shop Specializes in Electric Clock Repair
Do You Know?
Do You Know?
Don't
Drawing of 15 Tooth Escapement
Early American Clock Keys
Early Watches
East Boston Airport Timed By Waltham
Electric Clock-Motors - Caution
Elgin Announces 1941 Line
Elgin Announces Their New Beryl-X-Balances
Elgin Annual Report Ranks First in the Industry
Elgin Annual Statement Shows Larger Net Profit
Elgin Entertains U.P. Inspectors
Elgin National Watch Company 1936-1945 Report
Elgin National Watch Company 1936-1945 Report
Elgin Watch Exhibit Big Feature of 1939 New York World's Fair
Employes Honor Swartchild Family
Ethical Advertising
Every Elgin Now Assembled In Dust-Free Atmosphere
Every Watch a Compass
Final Program on "Scientific Timing" Presented
Finer Results at a Saving
Fitting Stems and Crowns
For Intrepid Action
Found! Diamonds Looted by Nazis
Found! First Elgin Watch Ever Created
Friction Jeweling
Friesland or Dutch Hood Clock
G. E. Display Available
Government Buys Timing Machines
Gruen to Introduce New Models
Hairspring Truing Arbor
Hairsprings Touched by Rust
Hamilton Watch Company Wins Nation's Highest Award For 1940's Best Advertising Copy
Hamliton Watch Names Three New Officers
Hansen Poising Tool
Helpful Hints
Hill Dweller Makes Unusual Clock
Horological School News
Horological School News
Horological School News
Horologist of Royalty
Human Clock
Improper Use of Solvents Causes Dermatitis
Information Please!
Information Please!
Information Please!
Information Please!
Information Please!
Information Please!
Iowa Farmer-Jeweler
Is The Jeweler's Job A Strain On The Eye?
It's "Barrel Time", All the Time With This Big Clock
J. B. Matthews Appointed Watchmaster Representative in Southwest
Jacob Bachtold - Grand Central Terminal Clockmaster
Jeweler Finds Certified Watchmaker a Business-Builder
Jewelry Store Burglarized, Loss About $4,000
L. Luria and Son, Inc. Opens Miami, Florida Branch
L. Luria and Son, Inc. Opens Miami, Florida Branch
Labor, Management Pledge Full Production at Elgin
Let's Have a Look At the Other Side
Let's Unite
Longines Hear From Watches In Antarctica
Mainsprings
Making A Balance Staff
Making a Balance Staff
Making Fitting of Balance Staffs Pay
Man's Conquest of Time
Maryland Jewelers Operate In 'Fifth Avenue Manner'
Miscellaneous Technical Subjects
Moving Clock Found to Run Slower Than Stationary One
Naval Horologists
Navy Department Calls For Your Help
New G. I. A. Glossary Will Aid Entire Industry
New General Manager for Burton M. Reid Sons
New Grooved Balance Staff
New Technical Member
New Trends for Third Finger - Left Hand
Notes of the Trade
Novelty Clock
Nuremberg: Town of Inventions
Official Time
Old Harmonite Clock
Old Mainsprings
OPA Price Revision
Ordering Material
Pallet Stones
Parker Pen Company Sponsors "Information Please"
Pocket Sun Dials
Points of Interest
Postoffices Go Horological
Pro Bono Publico
Procedure for Altering Defective Draw
Questions and Answers
Reasons For Legislation
Registration Law
Removing Connon Pinions
Repairing a Regulator
Repeating Attachments
Reply to Silbert's Letter
Safety Glass Prevents Jewelry Robbery
Salvaging Jewels
Second Century of Service
Seconds-Beat Regulator and Calendar Clock
Setting Up An Escapement
Shakespeare and Horology
Signal Clocks Solve Emergency Guard Problem in West's Largest Hospital
Silver-Lined Blackout Bulb Designed
Single Pin Escapement
Small Upright Drill Press
Splitting Hairs
Staking the Balance Staff
Starts Victory Time Campaign
Story of Time Told at New York Fair
Studies in the Lever Escapement
Sudden Setbacks
Suggestion Department
Sun Watch and Compass Designed For Sportsmen
Surplus Watches
Symmetry Vs. Symbolism
T. Albert Potter, Elgin President New Head Illinois Mfgrs.
Template
Tennessee Activity
The Mountain of Light
The Scrap-Heap Clock
The Timepiece and the Auxilary
The Venturesome Fool!
The Waltham Taper Shoulder Detachable Balance Staff
The Watchband Maker of Luzon
Time Down in Rhode Island
Time For Humor
Time for Victory
Time In Parish Church
Timepiece Extraordinary
Tissot "Automatic"
To Repair Clock Escape Wheel
To the Officers and Members United Horological Association
To Tighten Cannon Pinion
To Watchmakers Seeking Legislation
Trade Secrets
Two "Faithful Servitors" Find Place in Elgin Collection
Typhoid Fever at Elgin
Typhoid Fever In Elgin
U. S. Government Calls On Elgin For Precision Instruments
Unique Jewelry Shop
Violators of 2nd Hand Watch Law Convicted
Waltham Watches Played Vital Role in Life of Henry Ford
Wanted By F.B.I.
Watch Built By Student
Watches That Stop
Watchmaker Licensing And Rehabilitation
Watchmaker's Lament
Watchmakers Legislation As It Looks
Watchmakers' Registery
Watchmaster House Organ
Waterproof Watch Is Here To Stay
William Helbein
Wyler Representative Sold His Watches In War Torn China
Vintage Photographs and Other Images
Elgin Advertising
Factory Photos
More Factory Photos
Post Cards
etc
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