Antique 1932 Elgin National Watch Co. model 7, pocket watch gold plated 12k, it works perfectly.

Antique 1932 Elgin National Watch Co. model 7, pocket watch gold plated 12k, it works perfectly.

Elgin Serial Number : 33601253

Production Year : 1932

Size : 45 mm

Jewels : 15 jewels

Grade : 313

Model : 7

Class :110

Run Quantity :2000

Production Dates :1932

Total Grade Production :524000

Movement Configuration :Open face

Setting :Pendant Wind and Set

Movement Finish :Nickel

Plate :3/4 Plate

Barrel :Going

Adjusted : no

In the spring of 1864 half a dozen ambitious Chicago businessmen decided that if Massachusetts could build a factory that built watches – Illinois could, too. Harper’s magazine summed their sentiment perfectly: “It was the genuine, audacious, self-reliant Western spirit.” By August of that year this consortium, including then-Chicago mayor Benjamin W. Raymond, purchased an abandoned farm 30 miles north of Chicago and built a watch factory there. After a year of designing and building the lathes and machines to achieve seemingly impossible levels of precision, a team of watchmakers and mechanical engineers produced their first pocket watch movement, named for mayor “B.W. Raymond.” The watch was exquisite: Elgin National Watch Company was born.

By 1910, word of Elgin’s obsession with precision had spread around the world. Elgin engineers built their own Observatory to maintain scientifically precise times in their watches.