Elgin National Watch Company - Wikipedia
The Elgin National Watch Company, commonly known as Elgin Watch Company, was a major US watch maker from 1864 to 1968. The company sold watches under the names Elgin, Lord Elgin, and Lady Elgin. For nearly 100 years, the company's manufacturing complex in Elgin, Illinois, was the world's largest site dedicated to watchmaking. [1]
Elgintime - The Elgin National Watch Company
The Elgin National Watch Company was founded in 1864 in Elgin, Illinois as the National Watch Company. But right from the start folks referred to the new products as "watches from Elgin", or Elgin watches.
About Elgin Serial Numbers - Elgintime
The Nation Watch Company, later known as the Elgin National Watch Company, was founded at the end of the Civil War, in 1864, in Elgin, Illinois. The first Elgin pocketwatch was an 18 size movement given the number 101, made in 1867. The serial numbers run from there up to the ballpark of 55 million, which is a lot of watches!
Elgin Watches - Guide to Value, Marks, History - WorthPoint
Elgin is known as a prolific American manufacturer of mid-grade watches. Over 100 years in business, they made more than 60 million watches. Today, collectors focus on Elgin because of the wide range of watch models, both pocket watches and wristwatches, available, and the affordability of many designs.
Elgin Watch Company History & Profile - Pocket Watch Database
Construction of the watch factory in Elgin, Illinois is completed. The National Watch Co. sells its first movement for about $115.00, an 18s key wind and key set quick train B.W. Raymond, named after the president of the company, serial number 101.
Elgin Watch Co. - NAWCC Forums
Apr 30, 2009 · The Elgin National Watch Co. was the largest American watch company in terms of jeweled movements produced, over 50,000,000 in its approximately 100 years of building watches from 1866 to the 1960s. Following its 1864 start, in which J.C. Adams had a hand, the National Watch Company reorganized, effective Feburary 15, 1865.
Early History - Elgintime
The Early History Elgin National Watch Company. This account of the humble beginnings of the Elgin watch company is from The Watch Factories of America, Past and Present. A complete history of watchmaking in America, Chicago, by George Henry Abbott, first published in 1888.
The Elgin National Watch Company History Pamphlet
Feb 14, 2024 · Pamphlet on the history of the Elgin National Watch Company created by the Elgin chapter of the National Secretaries Association. Made to celebrate America's bicentennial.
Elgin National Watch Co. - Encyclopedia of Chicago
Elgin National Watch Co. This enterprise, which would quickly become one of the world's leading manufacturers of timepieces, was founded in Chicago during the Civil War by a group of investors that included Benjamin W. Raymond, a former mayor of the city, and John C. Adams, a …
Watch, Elgin National Watch Co. - National Museum of American History
The Elgin National Watch Co. was founded in Elgin, Illinois, in 1864 at the end of the Civil War to compete with the American Waltham Watch Co. In its early decades it helped to establish a robust American watch manufacturing industry, and, by the time it ceased operation in 1968, it had produced millions of watches.
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