Elgintime Vintage Horological

This all looks good initially, nothing obviously broken. Most of the time after they are ticking I leave them running a full cycle before do...

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Here are a few images of this one before cleaning. This is fairly typical condition.  Elgin serial number 6958332 is an 18 size, 7 jewel, gr...

It turned out that my educated guess about where the hairspring stud should be pinned was correct. A lot of time was saved there. Now it...

The hairspring stud is at a steep angle, but this isn't because the hairspring is twisted. The stud has come loose the brass pin holding...

This is running well now. I'm going to run it dial up for a couple of days, without the bezel and crystal in place, in order to test for...