Job Number 170045
Here is a grade 291, 16 size, 7 jewel Elgin pocketwatch, made about 1918. 
Here's a detail showing the broken pivot on the balance staff. This balance features a double roller - meaning there are two disks below on the balance. The main one, with the roller jewel, or pin, and the guard which protects against over-banking. On this balance the roller is one piece. That makes it easier to get on and off, and there's no worrying about the alignment of the guard.
See the entire album for this project here. And more horological contents here. Also, follow along with vintage watch repairs here.
New Arrivals
The Howard brand is sometimes a source of confusion. The E. Howard Watch Company began in 1858 in Boston. But all its trademarks, and no patents, were sold to the Keystone Case Company in 1902.
Keystone then continued on producing E. Howard branded pocketwatches, although the later products are completely different from the earlier Howards. Watches from the earlier incarnation of the Howard company are significantly more rare than the later examples like these.
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Job Number 170043
Creative repairs...
See more examples of Elgin's Father Time movements here.
See the entire album for this project here. And more horological contents here.
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