Happy to host the Elgin Canteen Database from the elgincanteen yahoo groups, now under the resources menu.

Database

Some of you may have worked out already, using the 1896 grade list, there are  436,081 incorrectly identified movements based on the 1950 material list, any look up database also based on the 1950 material list is incorrect. Is that really a grade 69 or a B. W. Raymond you have in your hand ?

Explained Here

There are flaws in the 1950 Material list that the online databases reference for grade lookup.

This list was built using the list from the 1896 Material list before the grades were renumbered incorrectly.

1896 Grade List

Elgin was first in 1960 with a railroad approved wrist watch. Read about the efforts of Mr John Walker Barriger III and Mr Jack Pugh in modernizing the railroad.
Read More Here

Introducing Elgin’s 100th Anniverasry line that was never released in 1964. This opens a new chapter in Elgin’s watch production that has never been identified.
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Heres the long promised article on Elgin’s 1952 Watch of Tomorrow battery powered wristwatch. Lots of reading that hasn’t been shared on the internet before! Hope you all enjoy on reading about the real first battery powered wristwatch and we can start clearing up those myths.

Watch of Tomorrow