{"id":8603,"date":"2021-10-10T02:32:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T02:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?p=8603"},"modified":"2021-10-10T02:32:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T02:32:51","slug":"early-50s-elgin-pershing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?p=8603","title":{"rendered":"Early 50s Elgin Pershing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Elgin Pershing uses case number 5805, and is 10K solid gold.  The Pershing falls on the &#8220;less&#8221; seen side of things.  I actually have several NOS dials for the Pershing, but they must fit updated movements.  I was able to find this black dial example, which compared to the original dial, is in decent shape, although the &#8220;Elgin&#8221; and &#8220;19&#8221; gilt have faded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The watch doesn&#8217;t photograph well, but in person, the case, inner bezel, and gold hour markers shine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It uses the 19 jewel, 681 movement, which from the factory, was adjusted to 4 positions.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5225.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8604\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5225.jpeg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/?attachment_id=8604\" 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The Pershing falls on the &#8220;less&#8221; seen side of things. I actually have several NOS dials for the Pershing, but they must fit updated movements. I was able to find this black dial example, which compared to the original dial, is in decent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[278,165,209,279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8612,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603\/revisions\/8612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpyguyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}