Longines La Grande Classique Quartz - 33mm

1913 pocket watch
I have a Hamolton pocket watch made in 1913 with a hand etched ID of A10.29.1E. Any info on this is appreciated.

Help Identify an Illinois Wrist Watch?
Hi there,We recently purchased this Illinois watch at an antique shop in Toronto and would love to know more about it ¡ª the model name, production history, anything! We've done our best to find this out ourselves, but as absolute newcomers to the world of vintage watches, we've only had limited success. It seems close to a model called the Whippet, but we haven't been able to find an exact match to photos or old ads online. A peak inside the watch tells us it has 17 jewels and the serial number is 5124274. One online serial number look-up told it was likely made in 1929, another told us 1927. We don't have the experience (or the reference books) to solve this mystery alone. Would any of you watch sleuths care to take on the case?Many thanks,Mike & ChristineTorontoIllinois Wrist Watch 1.jpgIllinois Wrist Watch 2.jpgIllinois Wrist Watch 3.jpg

Some of the Elgin Watch Collectors Site pages are available on the Wayback Machine.
There is an internet archive tool that periodically crawls the web and stores copies of the pages it finds. This is their home page. The latest archive of the elginwatches.org was done in Jun 2011 and can be seen here. Most of the text can be recovered but some of the picture links don't show. As far as the database the SN by year page is present as is the grade summary list but the search page doen't work probably because the links to the database information were not captured or are not available from the original servers. The two databases were available for download from the PW_elgin Program link but it gives an error in the archive now. The names of the two files are elgin_grade_data and elgin_sn_data. I am hoping that someone on the forum was curious enough to download these files and have copies of them. I believe that they can be turned into a usable search tool again and since they were freely available on the original site it should be OK to use them for their original resear

Ploprof 600 DIY cleaning
So...My ploprof bezel started to be a bit stiff, so I decided I have to be brave and pop the bezel off and give it a bit of a clean.My plan is to make this watch (all original watch) an active dive watch, which means I have to replace the crystal and crown gaskets at some point. I might replace them myself, as it would be a nice little project, and then have it tested for water proofness.So today I popped the bezel. And it was DIRTY under there. And I also found something interesting...So here we go...Some masking tape, and a small Victorinox pocket knife where my tools.Bezel came off really easily.Bezel popped off. I started to insert the blade between the case and bezel, and push inwards, no twisting at all, and it literally said pop. Then I slowly started moving the blade around the bezel, gently twisting the bezel free from the case.As you can see, there was some 10 years worth of dirt.Backside of the bezel, very dirty too...A good q-tip dry slightly moist (since I'm not sure it's

Does the Rolex Datejust 116233 (2001 Y Serial) have hollow gold center links?
I recently purchased a datejust 116233 and it is supposed to have the original Rolex two-tone 18k gold/SS jubilee bracelet. Would a 2001 Datejust (Y Serial) have hollow 18k gold center links? These are hollow not solid- you could push a staple or toothpick through them. Any tips are helpful. I just noticed that they are hollow.Cheers :)