For those of us currently missing baseball, here is a photograph of the Rockford Watch Company baseball team, c.1910. The team played in the Rockford Industrial Athletic League for many.
Years ago, I acquired a stereoscopic view of the National Watch Company factory (Elgin), originally photographed by Spencer Manley Adams around 1874. I recently came across a second Adams view.
Starting around 1896, the Keystone Watch Case Company became the exclusive export selling agent for the Elgin National Watch Company. Decades earlier, Elgin had attempted to market their movements in.
At the beginning of 2019, I set an aggressive goal to digitize and upload 50 publications related to the American watchmaking industry by the end of the year. This newest.
In 1921, the Illinois Watch Company published a promotional booklet titled “Illinois Watches and Their Makers.” The majority of the content included in this publication consists of excerpts from the.
The Rockford Watch Company introduced its first watches to the market in 1876 in the midst of a country-wide economic depression. Despite the difficult challenge, strategic marketing efforts helped the.
