A Two-Tone grade 345 'transit' movement Elgin Watch Databases Although it may require some digging, a lot of useful information can be found out about Elgin watches by using these databases. Right now, everything is geared toward experienced watch collectors, but even people who know very little about watches should be able to pick out some useful facts. The Elgin Serial Number database was created by scanning and OCR'ing the 1950 serial number list. Then I had to go through and clean up the list by hand, changing 'O's to '0's, 'S's to '5's, and '11's to '0's etc. Then I wrote some code to do a bunch of sanity checks on the data (serial number runs should increase and not overlap, high grade numbers should appear early, etc.) Then I verified the runs that I found with the runs that Dennis Booth typed in by hand and resolved all discrepancies between the two databases. Next I compared the production totals by grade with the list created by John Miller in Roy Ehrhardt's 'Elgin Watch Company' book.
The remaining four digits of the serial number indicate the production number for the watch. If your last for digits are 0000 then you have the first watch made for that model reference number. Returning to our examples and using the second digit from the serial number we get the following production dates. Look up your elgin watch repair; serial number on ebay for my wife. How to look up your watch serial number is legitimate and value your search and wonderful. Serial Number Lookup. Please enter your serial number to see the status of services and upgrades on your appliance: Captcha. My Watchguard. Manage Cases.