I purchased quite a few porcelain dials from S. LaRose a few years ago. In a group of dials I bought were a couple of these dials in 3/0 size. Thought the members would like to see an Elgin dial with Hebrew numerals.

Ernest thats a interresting dial was these used on watches shipped outside the states.

That is an interesting variation. I have also seen a few Elgin dials with Japanese numbers on them. It might have been a marketing idea which might have never got off the ground. Maybe there are other types of Elgin ethnic dials around - such as one for the Arab market?

Best regards,
Greg

Slightly related to the Elgin, when I was 7 and went to Israel with my grandparents and the rest of my immediate family, as a parting gift, my granddad bought this watch for me at the duty free shop at Lod (Ben Gurion) Airport. I've had it ever since. I never really wear it anymore (not really my style now, and the rhodium plating is going), but I did have it serviced recently.

By the way, it cost $17.50 at the time. That was in 1971.

Another by the way: I just took out the watch to examine it and set/wind it. After 35+ years, the luminous still glows brightly after exposure to light (like Luminova, though it has to be tritium, right?)...

Another view.

One more. Notice the menorah on the case back.