Earlier this week, I purchased a Seth Thomas pocket watch without seeing images of the movement, sometimes called "buying the dial." While the watch is in transit, I thought it.
The first model introduced by the United States Watch Company (Marion) featured a beautiful "butterfly cutout," revealing the escapement typically hidden away from view. The top plate design used for.
Before the organization of the Fredonia Watch Company in 1880, brothers Edward D., Lewis S., and Clarence M. Howard found success selling private label watches produced by several watch factories,.
The Illinois Watch Company distributed this small illustrated catalog in 1884 to promote its line of watch movements offered at the time. The introduction to the catalog mentions several improvements.
Pan-American pocket watches are Private Label pocket watches manufactured by the Seth Thomas Watch Company around 1898 that may have initially been intended as a commemorative for the Pan-American Exposition.
Before Fogg's patented safety pinion entered the public domain in 1882, new watch companies were compelled to prioritize the development of their own unique safety pinion design. When the Illinois.
