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	Elgin National Watch Company - 1903
		The National Watch Company of Chicago, Illinois was incorporated on August 27, 1864 with a capital of $100,000.
		In September of 1864 a visit was made by some company representatives to the Waltham Watch Co. and seven of their key people where lured away to work for the newly formed company and they were nicknamed the Seven Stars.
		At that time watches took six months to complete and the B. Raymond model sold for $117 at a time when pork chops sold for three cents a pound (several years ago this watch was bought at auction by the city of Elgin for $15,000).
	www.antiqnet.com /detail,elgin-national-watch,341278.html (1084 words)

	ELGIN WATCH COMPANY HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The company was re-organized on April 25, 1865 with a capitol of $500,000.
		The company sold it in 1965, and it was razed in 1965-66.
		Watch production was now centered in South Carolina, and this was the site of the casing, fitting, shipping, service, and trade material departments as well as offices.
	www.thewatchguy.homestead.com /pages/ELGIN.html (1488 words)

	The History of the Elgin National Watch Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Elgin was not known for making the highest quality watches, though some of their higher grades were exquisitely made timepieces.
		Elgin watches remain extremely popular with collectors today because they are plentiful, can be obtained at reasonable prices, and can be relatively easily repaired due to the large number of watches and parts available.
		Elgin shipped their first wristwatch in 1910, and later manufactured the first wrist watch to be qualified for railroad service, the grade 730A B. Raymond.
	www.pocketwatchrepair.com /histories/elgin.html (479 words)

	[ELGIN] The Elgin Watch Collectors Site
		Watches are one of the few machines that were made 50 or even 150 years ago that, even today, can still be practical to use every day.
		The first watch Elgin made, an 18 sized B W Raymond railroad grade watch, was finished in 1867 and over the next 100 years, they went on to produce about 60 million watches.
		Elgin realized that there was a large market for good watches that could be sold and repaired relatively cheaply using factory made replacement parts that didn't require hand adjusting.
	elginwatches.org (786 words)

	Elgin pocket watch, pocketwatches, pocketwatch, OLDWATCH.COM Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 1863, the idea of beginning a large watch company in the West was discussed by Mr.
		The certificate of incorporation or license granted at this time was surrendered on April 25, 1865, and the company was reorganized under a special charter granted by the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, on February 15, 1865.
		The citizens of the city donated 35 acres of land to the company for the plant and homes for the foremen, together with purchasing $25,000 worth of stock in the company.
	www.oldwatch.com /elgin.html (360 words)

	Elgin National Watch Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The idea of beginning a large watch company for the mid-West was discussed by J.C. Adams, Bartlett and Blake.
		The company produced the only self-winding (automatic) wristwatch movement ever made in the United States in the calibers 760 and 761 (30 and 27 jewels resepctively).
		The rights to the name "Elgin" were sold to MZ Berger, but Elgin-branded watches produced after 1964 have no other connection to Elgin or the Elgin Watch Company.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elgin_Watch_Company (319 words)

	The Elgin National Watch Company Observatory
		What is today known as the Elgin U-46 Planetarium began life in 1910 as the Elgin National Watch Company Observatory.
		In order to maintain its position as a leading manufacturer of timepieces, the Elgin National Watch Company decided to build an observatory that would measure time more accurately than any other facility in the U.S. The observatory was sited on the top of a hill just east of the watch factory.
		As a result, the Elgin National Watch Company closed the doors to its Observatory in 1958.
	www.astrodigital.org /astronomy/ewo.html (533 words)

	[ELGIN] Illinois Watch Case Company of Elgin and Elgin American
		The Illinois Watch Case Company was another major manufacture in the city of Elgin Illinois.
		About 50 years later, when watch companies started selling cased watches, ENWCo went out and bought the Wadsworth Watch Case Company of Kentucky, even though it might have made more sense to buy the IWCCo, which was just down the street.
		In 1901, the court ruled in favor of IWCCo and said that the name "Elgin" could not be trademarked since it was a geographical description and existed before the watch company.
	elginwatches.org /history/illinois_watch_cases.html (593 words)

	Elgin National Watch Company (Father Time Vignette) - 1903
		This item is hand signed (with a Star Cancellation) by the company’s president (Charles H. Hulbund) and secretary and is over 103 years old.
		An observatory at 312 Watch Street, Elgin, Illinois, was constructed in 1909-10 to time watches by the stars.
		It was sold by Elgin National Industries in 1972, but a small watch repair operation continued to occupy it.
	www.scripophily.net /elnatwatcom.html (1791 words)

	Elgin National Watch Company - 1903 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The operation was closed in 1958, and the building was sold to the University of Nebraska.
		These were transferred to the Main Plant in Elgin in 1932 and 1940.
		The above history was from Hans W. (Rusty) Hanewacker at http://www.rustyrobin.com/ElginHistory/ElginHistory.htm who is A Collector of Elgin Watches.
	www.scripophily.net /natwatcom.html (1746 words)

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