{"id":5059,"date":"2015-11-22T01:20:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T01:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?p=5059"},"modified":"2018-10-31T17:47:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:47:04","slug":"mid-1950s-elgin-windsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?p=5059","title":{"rendered":"Mid 1950s Elgin Windsor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up this 1954 Elgin Windsor a couple of days ago. \u00a0Cosmetically, it is in nice shape after just a quick cleaning, but I noticed the hour and minute hands didn&#8217;t line up properly. \u00a0When I went to set the time, the hour hand would skip from 6 to 7. \u00a0Turned out some teeth were stripped, but luckily I had a replacement gear from a spare movement.<\/p>\n<p>The movement is the Elgin branded 645 Swiss movement. \u00a0It has 17 jewels. \u00a0The case is 6808 and is 10k gold filled. \u00a0It came with a really nice Hadley expansion band.<\/p>\n<p>Even though one might think that with the 17 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