I finally came across a Lord Elgin Clubman with a clean waffle dial that I could afford.<\/p>\n
After a little cleaning and buffing, the watch is in great shape.\u00a0 The waffle dial just has bit of yellow aging to it.<\/p>\n
The movement has a serial number to it, which puts it into the 52 million range and means it was made in 1952.\u00a0 Ranfft says the 556\u00a0 movement has a power reserve of 38 hours and runs at 18,000 bph.\u00a0 It has 21 jewels.<\/p>\n
The case is 14K gold filled.<\/p>\n
As an added bonus, the watch came with a vintage Speidel expansion band that has leather inserts.\u00a0 It is in remarkably great shape and will be one of the few bands that came with an eBay purchase I will keep.<\/p>\n
While it isn’t the original black leather band that came with the Clubman, I think it looks good on the watch.<\/p>\n\n\t\t