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A couple more vintage Elgins added to the collection - Grumpyguy - 11-23-2015
Before you think I'm totally crazy, I sold off about 15 watches in the last month or so....
So here's a couple new ones I bought.
1955 Elgin Surf-love the dial on this one
Early 60's Lord Elgin Thin Thin-has the American made/designed 760 automatic movement in it.
1954 Elgin Windsor
1957 Lord Elgin Glencove-Elgin described this as part of their Niteglo series, where the back of the hands were coated with radium, resulting in the hands throwing off a soft glow on the dial.
Most of the original dials get radium burn, so I bought a NOS dial, lumed the hour markers and put lume on the back of the hands. At night, it lights up rather nicely--probably not at bright at radium, but the hands do lightly illuminate the dial.
Re: A couple more vintage Elgins added to the collection - SDGuy - 11-23-2015
Ooh - self-winding.
I have to wind my Elgin manually (it's from 1924 - I don't think self-winding mechanisms were on the market yet), but - thankfully - only once per week.
I'm still trying to find an appropriate strap for it...
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Re: A couple more vintage Elgins added to the collection - mrlynn - 11-23-2015
Neat. The '60s "Lord Elgin Thin Thin" is to my eye the most elegant.
Impelled me to look up the Wikipedia history of the Elgin Watch Co., which was a going concern until it folded in 1968. They don't say what happened. But they do say that none of the subsequent 'Elgin'-branded watches bear any relationship to those produced by the Elgin Watch Co.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_National_Watch_Company
/Mr Lynn
Re: A couple more vintage Elgins added to the collection - GuyGene - 11-23-2015
Ohhhh, those are nice, Grump! I have a weakness for those old watches, but due to fibromyalgia, I canno' wear anything on arms, wrists. And, I was taught that men only use pocket watches and wear boxers. I'm a man.:oldfogey:
Re: A couple more vintage Elgins added to the collection - tenders - 11-23-2015
What does "radium burn" look like? Sounds disastrous!
Re: A couple more vintage Elgins added to the collection - Spiff - 11-23-2015
tenders wrote:
What does "radium burn" look like? Sounds disastrous!
https://www.google.com/search?q=watch+radium+burn&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiK_7KWg6fJAhXKRiYKHRtXAIgQsAQIKw&biw=1549&bih=940
Re: A couple more vintage Elgins added to the collection - Grumpyguy - 11-23-2015
Thanks Spiff, that is radium burn exactly.
Spiff wrote:
[quote=tenders]
What does "radium burn" look like? Sounds disastrous!
https://www.google.com/search?q=watch+radium+burn&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiK_7KWg6fJAhXKRiYKHRtXAIgQsAQIKw&biw=1549&bih=940