One of a series of little biographies of Elgin Watches
Everyone knows what a watch means to a railroad man. My father - a locomotive engineer in the days of wood-burning locomotives in the West - taught me how to read time almost before I learned the alphabet.
On my twenty-first birthday, he gave me an Elgin Watch and to a railroad man, the son of a railroad man, no finer gift could have been given.
During many years of railroad service, I worked by this Elgin. Long after its heavy hunting case design went out of style, it remained dear to me.
Today I carry a modern Elgin - a Corsican model. But the old watch still means much to me, the gift of a father to a son, a remembrance of railroad days.
- by Walter P. Chrysler
ELGIN
THE WATCH WORD FOR ELEGANCE AND EFFICIENCY
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