Final Update - Mystery Elgin 190 Type

This will be my last update on the blog about this Elgin.  Through the knowledge and experience of members of the WatchUSeek forum.  I wish to express my thanks to the members there.  Ben Hutcherson in particular has been very helpful.

In his experience he has seen and knows of watches built by employees of watch factories.  They were sold grey materials at cost and allowed to use equipment to build and finish them.  This is currently the best theory for this watch.  The only other working theory is as a prototype.

I did have the chance to strip down the watch for a basic clean and oil.  When I did I took the pictures below.  They show the high level of quality of this watch's build.  As well as that it shows that the parts have no partial or whole serial numbers stamped in them.  In a regular watch all the main plates are stamped.  

So at the moment the watch will have to be classified as an employee made grade 190.  The serial may have meaning but that meaning may be lost to time.