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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
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        • Elgin Model Reference, 3/0 Size
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      • Elgin Named Movements
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      • 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
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