Elgin pocket watch

I see this varying in price by a lot online trying to date this piece it’s self winding and still works but is missing front glass

 

Is it silver? Size? I would think any decent jeweler or watchmaker can replace the glass! A cleaning might not hurt either?? But maybe I'm speaking out of turn......not really my forté.... @afantiques !!!

 

The engine on the back is straight out of the 1930s. It's a streamliner and unless I'm totally mistaken it looks like one they ran on the Burlington Northern. A jeweler ought to be able to pop the back and find the serial number; you can date it pretty precisely with that. These were meant to be repaired, so you can definitely get into them. I've done it myself often enough.

 

popular case.......... not sure about the 30's though..... but IDK......

 

It's probably close, but the train is a cool design that kept getting used for fun well after the 30s, so...?

 

That exact train design..??

 

Not exact, but at least the same engine model. I'm not sure how long they ran her.
She went into a museum in 1960 - had to look that part up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Zephyr

 

Need to see the movement. I doubt it's self winding. A loco on the case is more likely to be from the seventies til now.

 

Yes it is self winding I wound it up and it started ticking not sure how to do a video to show movement it’s 2” wide

 

Self winding is when you shake it around and it starts ticking.

 

Sorry but that's too funny.....gotta be an age thing !!!

Self winding = Automatic .. the watch winds by it's own movement.
You winding it.. = manual winding.