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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]
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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 American Watch Company created and marketed the first successful industrialized watch. Before 1857, The Boston Watch Company made and sold approximately 5,000 movements and 4,000 cases before it failed financially, and in the factory at the time there was an estimated 1,300 watches in various stages of production that had yet to be finished ...
E. Howard & Co. was a clock and watch company founded in 1958 by Edward Howard and Charles Rice after the demise of the Boston Watch Company.The pair acquired some of the material and watches in progress through a lien held by Rice against the defunct company.
A Movado Ermeto watch was a pocket/purse watch manufactured between 1926 and 1985 by Movado in La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland). [1] The model, a joint creation between case maker Huguenin Frères and watch maker Movado, was introduced in 1926. It won the Grand Prix at the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition. [1]
The Philadelphia Watch Case Company Building is located at Pavilion and Lafayette Avenues near the Riverside station in Riverside Township of Burlington County, New Jersey. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 31, 1978, for its significance in architecture, industry, and entertainment.
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.