Pocket Watch Database
Elgin Size 16s Model 20: Overview & Production
Model 20 Features
Movement Diagram
Example Image
Dial Plate Image
Note: Diagrams and photos displayed are intended to serve as a represenation of this model.
Plate cut, finishing style, jewel count, regulator, and other features may differ between grades within the same model designation.
Plate cut, finishing style, jewel count, regulator, and other features may differ between grades within the same model designation.
| Size | 16s |
| Configuration | Openface |
| Plate | 3/4 |
| Setting | |
| Finish | Nickel |
| Notes | Detent Stem |
| U.S. Patents | 77078 |
| Model 20 Image Gallery | |
Model 20 Production
| Total Production: | ~938,000 |
| Est. Production Years: | 1947 - 1955 |
| Earliest Serial: | 1 |
| Latest Serial: | 962,000 |
| Runs: | ~73 |
| Smallest Run: | 1,000 |
| Largest Run: | 394,000 |
| Distinctive Grades: | 6 |
Model 20 Production Segments
| Model 20 (All Variations): 938,000 ETP | |
| Flat: 122,000 (13.01%) | Nickel: 816,000 (86.99%) |
| Openface: 938,000 (100.00%) |
| Pendant: 231,000 (24.63%) | Lever: 707,000 (75.37%) |
| 15j: 122,000 (13.01%) | 17j: 228,000 (24.31%) | 19j: 23,000 (2.45%) | 21j: 565,000 (60.23%) |