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Peter Henlein (c. 1479–1542), German locksmith, Nürnberg, often considered the inventor of the watch, portable clocks and watches. Nicolaus Kratzer (1487–late 1550), German mathematician and astronomer, Munich , royal astronomer of Henry VIII of England , sun dial .
Fire-gilded pomander watch from 1505 probably made by Henlein, one of the earliest existing examples of a watch Henlein became known as a maker of small portable ornamental spring-powered brass clocks, very rare and expensive, [ 2 ] which were fashionable among the nobility of the time, worn as pendants or attached to clothing, which can be ...
The watch was an 18-size, full plate design. In 1869, the National Watch Company won "Best Watches, Illinois Manufacture" at the 17th Annual Illinois State Fair, for which it won a silver medal. [3] The company officially changed its name to the Elgin National Watch Company in 1874, as the Elgin name had come into common usage for their watches.
The Illinois Watch Company was founded on December 23, 1870, in Springfield, Illinois, by John C. Adams, John Whitfield Bunn (1831–1920), and various additional financiers. Twenty years later, Jacob Bunn Jr., (1864–1926) took over and ran the company until his death in 1926.
Thomas Mudge, inventor of the lever escapement. The lever escapement, invented by Thomas Mudge in 1754 [18] and improved by Josiah Emery in 1785, gradually came into use from about 1800 onwards, chiefly in Britain; it was also adopted by Abraham-Louis Breguet, but Swiss watchmakers (who by now were the chief suppliers of watches to most of Europe) mostly adhered to the cylinder until the 1860s.
The Waltham Watch Company, also known as the American Waltham Watch Co. and the American Watch Co., was a company that produced about 40 million watches, clocks, speedometers, compasses, time delay fuses, and other precision instruments in the United States of America between 1850 and 1957.
Sessions Clock Company; Bristol, Connecticut (1903–1969) Spartus Corporation; Chicago, Illinois, and Louisville, Mississippi (1934–2001) Standard Electric Time Company; Waterbury, Connecticut, Springfield, Massachusetts, and Tecumseh, Michigan (1887–Present) Time Telegraph Company (1883–1887) United Clock Company; Peru, Illinois (1853 ...
Charles Stahlberg and others from Waterbury, Connecticut, formed the "United Clock Company" on December 5, 1885, in Peru, Illinois, intending to manufacture clocks based on a technological innovation by Stahlberg. Stahlberg patented this innovation on September 22, 1885, (US patent #326,602) which involved the use of molded lead alloy movement ...