One of a series of little biographies or Elgin Watches
...Written by Eminent Elgineers
It was Oscar Wilde who wrote the "a man will kill the thing he loves," and while I would not care to confess to being a time-killer, I must admit that I have submitted my watches, for which I had a real affection, to many punishments, including the water test.
For in my younger days, I served as coxswain of an eight-oared shell, and in one dramatic practice spin on the Schuylkill, the boat was swamped and the crew made a most inglorious exit from the water. I swam ashore, but the watch that went overboard with me - my father's and a fine English make - was never quite the same.
My second watch was a gift from my mother on my twenty-first birthday. It served me faithfully for several years and then for reasons best known to itself, suddenly lost its reputation for unerring accuracy.
With no little reluctance I discarded it, and purchased an Elgin which, decade in and out, has never miscounted a minute that I've been aware of. It has won my regard as a true friend, on which I can rely almost to the second.
by John Drew
ELGIN
THE WATCH WORD FOR ELEGANCE & EFFICIENCY
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