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Joseph Fahys (May 28, 1832 – December 11, 1915) was one of the first U.S. watch case manufacturers. After emigrating from France, he went on to establish Joseph Fahys & Co., which at one time was the largest manufacturer of watch cases and one of the largest manufacturers of silverware in the United States. [1]
The Fahys Watch Case Co Factory in Sag Harbor 1878. The founder of the company, Joseph Fahys, was born on May 28, 1832, in Belfort, France. [3] In 1848, Fahys emigrated from France to the United States with his mother. He was apprenticed to Ulysses Savoye, of West Hoboken, New Jersey, who was one of the two first watch case makers in the United ...
A case for a pocket watch, 1870. The outer clamshell protects the watch. The inner layer contains a glass window. The ring is for the attachment of a chain. A usually metal clamshell case for a mechanical watch, [1] common until the early twentieth century. It is meant to sit around the inner case of the watch. [2]
The Dueber-Hampden Watch Company was an American watch manufacturing company. [1] In 1888 the Dueber Watch Case Company operating in Cincinnati from 1864 bought the Hampden Watch Company of New York, in operation since 1877. Dueber moved them both to Canton, Ohio, where Hampden used the Dueber cases until the companies merged in 1923. Pocket ...
The case is the outer covering of the watch. The case back is the back portion of the watch's case. Accessing the movement (such as during battery replacement) depends on the type of case back, which are generally categorized into four types: Snap-off case backs (press-on case backs): the watch back pulls straight off and presses straight on.
Designed by Ryūsuke Moriai as his first design for Casio, [5] the case of the F-91W measures 37.5 by 34.5 by 8.5 millimetres (1.48 by 1.36 by 0.33 in). The case is primarily made of resin, [6] with a stainless steel caseback and buttons, with the manufacturer's module number, 593, stamped on the caseback.