Old Elgin pocket Watch back

[Boonieguy]

Found this down in the pasture behind my house the other day . I looked up the numbers in the back and this was the info from Elgin.
I was wondering about the design as i haven’t found one online that looks anything similar. I’m hoping to find the rest of it but it’s tough going as the whole area has been a dumping ground for a 100 years from all the junk i dig up .

 

[Oldhead]

Very cool

 

[coinman123]

Awesome find. I just want to let you know that the case numbers are different than the actual watch numbers because they are made by a separate manufacturer, and case number records are not available on the internet from what I know. I found this out when I recently bought an old broken Waltham watch, with an Elgin key wind case and the date 1874 carved with a nail into the back of the case. When trying to search the serial number on the inside of the case back, the website said to not enter case numbers, that they were irrelevant to the watch. I entered the number anyway, and it came back with the results saying that it was made in 1910, which is wrong because the case was an older key wind type, and the date 1874 was carved into it. Great find though, it looks late 1800's to maybe around 1900 or so. I hope I find a watch case sometime, the old ones are definitely very beautiful and well engraved.

 

[trdking]

Awesome find. I just want to let you know that the case numbers are different than the actual watch numbers because they are made by a separate manufacturer, and case number records are not available on the internet from what I know. I found this out when I recently bought an old broken Waltham watch, with an Elgin key wind case and the date 1874 carved with a nail into the back of the case. When trying to search the serial number on the inside of the case back, the website said to not enter case numbers, that they were irrelevant to the watch. I entered the number anyway, and it came back with the results saying that it was made in 1910, which is wrong because the case was an older key wind type, and the date 1874 was carved into it. Great find though, it looks late 1800's to maybe around 1900 or so. I hope I find a watch case sometime, the old ones are definitely very beautiful and well engraved.

100% agree. Please post up a close up of the information in the case back? We can at least tell you who made it and what its made of.
Cheers

 

[Boonieguy]

I do remember about not using the case numbers for researching the date but forgot . I looked it up on my phone and didn’t notice. It says overland in the back with the serial numbers in a V shape like this .

 

[against the wind]

I don't know all that much about pocket watches, but I do know that that one is real purty.
Congratulations

 

[thrifty76now]

Good find on that watch back,and I hope you can find more of it.

 

[sutphin]

OLE CASE FINDS ARE COOL

 

[trdking]

I am now more curious for a picture of the case inside. I have not heard of an overland case company. Only the rather rare Overland Movement by Elgin Watch Co. These were usually in 1/4 gold cases not nice silver. Try and post it up?

 

[Boonieguy]

Here ya go.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Cool relic!