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A couple more vintage Elgins added to the collection
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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.





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A couple more vintage Elgins added to the collection - by Grumpyguy - 11-23-2015, 12:19 AM

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