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Elgin Grade 239 Advertisement from 1903

Generic "No. 76" Manufacturers' Price List Catalog (1903)

Publication Year: 1903

Page: 4

Grade:239
Manufacturer:Elgin
Note:Veritas
Size:18s
Configuration:Openface
Setting:Lever
Finish:Nickel
Finish Description:Nickel, Damaskeened Plates
Jewels:21j
Jewel Setting:Raised Settings
Jewel Description:21 Fine Ruby Jewels (Raised Gold Settings)
Adjusted:Yes
Adjusted To Temperature:Yes
Adjusted To Isochronism:Yes
Adjusted Description:Adjusted to Temperature, Isochronism and Positions
Regulator:Micrometric Regulator
Hairspring:Breguet
Balance:Compensation
Train:Quick
Escapement Type:Straight Line Escapement
Dial Material:Glass Enamel
Dial Type:Double-sunk
Description:NO. 239 VERITAS O.F. LEVER SET; NICKEL, 21 FINE RUBY JEWELS (RAISED GOLD SETTINGS), ADJUSTED TO TEMPERATURE, ISOCHRONISM AND POSITIONS, QUICK TRAIN WITH GOLD WHEELS, STRAIGHT LINE ESCAPEMENT WITH STEEL ESCAPE WHEEL, PALLET ARBOR AND ESCAPE PINION CONE-PIVOTED AND CAP-JEWELED, EXPOSED PALLETS, COMPENSATING BALANCE, BREGUET HAIRSPRING, MICROMETRIC REGULATOR, PATENT SAFETY BARREL WITH SPRING BOX RIGIDLY MOUNTED ON BRIDGE, DISPLAY WINDING WORK, PATENT RECOILING CLICK, PATENT SELF-LOCKING SETTING DEVICE, DOUBLE SUNK GLASS ENAMEL DIAL, DUST RING, DAMASKEENED PLATES, CAREFULLY TIMED AND FINELY FINISHED THROUGHOUT. $52.50 NO. 214 VERITAS O.F. 23, EXTRA FINE RUBY JEWELS, ADJUSTED. $63.00
Price:$52.50
Elgin Grade 239 Advertisement from 1905

The Keystone, Volume 26

Publication Year: 1905

Page: 320

Grade:239
Manufacturer:Elgin
Size:18s
Configuration:Hunting
Finish:Nickel
Jewels:21j
Jewel Count Marked:Yes
Adjusted:Yes
Adjusted Marked:Yes
Railroad Grade:Yes
Markings:Veritas
Elgin, Ill.
U.S.A.
21 Jewels
Adjusted
Safety Barrel
Elgin Grade 239 Advertisement from 1906

Brotherhoods of Locomotive Firemen's Magazine

Publication Date: April 1906

Page: 7

Grade:239
Manufacturer:Elgin
Size:18s
Model:8
Configuration:Openface
Setting:Lever
Finish:Nickel
Jewels:21j
Jewel Count Marked:Yes
Jewel Setting:Raised Gold Settings
Jewel Description:Twenty-one fine ruby jewels
Adjusted:Yes
Adjusted Marked:Yes
Adjusted To Temperature:Yes
Adjusted To Isochronism:Yes
Adjusted Description:Adjusted to Temperature, Isochronism and Positions
Railroad Grade:Yes
Regulator:Micrometric Regulator
Hairspring:Breguet
Balance:Compensation
Train:Quick
Escapement Type:Straight Line
Markings:Veritas
Elgin, Ill.
U.S.A.
21 Jewels
Safety Barrel
Adjusted
Dial Material:Glass Enamel
Dial Type:Double-sunk
Description:The No. 239 Veritas Model
Elgin
for Railroad Men
18 Size
Open face, lever set. Nickel. Twenty-one fine ruby jewels (raised gold settings); adjusted to temperature, isochronism and positions; quick train with gold wheels, straight line escapement with steel escape wheel; pallet arbor and escape pinion cone-pivoted and cap-jeweled; exposed pallets; compensating balance; Breguet hairspring; micrometric regulator; patent safety barrel, with spring box rigidly mounted on bridge; display winding work; patent recoiling click; patent self-locking setting device; double-sunk glass-enamel dial; dust right; damaskeened plates; carefully timed, and finely finished throughout.
Elgin Grade 239 Advertisement from 1907

A.C. Becken 16th Annual Catalog (1907)

Publication Year: 1907

Page: 4

Grade:239
Manufacturer:Elgin
Note:Veritas
Size:18s
Configuration:Openface
Setting:Lever
Finish:Nickel
Finish Description:Damaskeened Plates
Jewels:21j
Jewel Count Marked:Yes
Jewel Setting:Raised Gold Settings
Jewel Description:21 Fine Ruby Jewels
Adjusted:Yes
Adjusted Marked:Yes
Adjusted To Temperature:Yes
Adjusted To Isochronism:Yes
Adjusted Description:Adjusted to Temperature, Isochronism and Positions
Regulator:Micrometric Regulator
Hairspring:Breguet
Balance:Compensation
Markings:Veritas
Elgin, Ill.
U.S.A.
21 Jewels
Adjusted
Safety Barrel
Dial Material:Glass Enamel
Dial Type:Double-sunk
Description:Veritas, 21 Jewels.

3/4 plate, nickel, 21 fine ruby jewels (raised gold settings); adjusted to temperature, isochronism and positions; steel escape wheel; pallet arbor and escape pinion cone-pivoted and cap-jeweled; exposed pallets, compensation balance; Breguet hairspring, micrometric regulator; patent safety barrel with spring box rigidly mounted on bridge; display winding work; patent recoiling click; patent self-locking setting device, double sunk glass enamel dial; dust ring; plates damaskeened; carefully timed, and finely finished throughout.

Open Face, lever set, $55.00
Hunting, lever set, $55.00
Price:$55.00

A.C. Becken Catalog (1915)

Publication Year: 1915

Page: 80

Grade:239
Manufacturer:Elgin
Size:18s
Configuration:Openface
Finish:Nickel
Price:$50.90