Factories
Continuing the article from yesterday describing the early process of dial production at the National Watch Company: “Then the dial goes to an artist, who, holding it under a magnifier,.
In 1869, Harper’s Monthly Magazine published an article by Albert D. Richardson describing his recent visit to the National Watch Company factory in Elgin, Illinois. Within a series of department.
In 1864, Aaron L Dennison and A.O. Bigelow organized the Tremont Watch Company in Boston, Massachusetts. The objective was to produce a "hybrid" movement, leveraging cheap manufacturing in Zurich, Switzerland.
Early in the history of American watchmaking, the bustling town of Springfield, Massachusetts produced fine watch movements for a nation eager for a new start following the Civil War. For.