Hand-Colored “Dominion” Locomotive Dial, Winter Scene, Fitted on a Waltham 18-Size Crescent St. Movement. Shortly after the American watch factories perfected new procedures for efficiently marking dials with transfer techniques,.
New image transfer techniques at the end of the 19th century also yielded innovative and practical dial designs. The “Rate Dial” Designed to Indicate Speed of Travel, c.1895, Fitted on.
Pictured: “The Wells Dial” c.1900 One particularly interesting design proposed in response to the standard time adopted by the railroad industry is “The Wells Dial.” This unique dial exhibits one.
Pictured: Waltham “Twenty-Four Hour Division Dial” Fitted on a 18-Size P.S. Bartlett Movement, c.1907. The adoption of standard time by the railroad industry in 1883 spurred a flurry of innovative.
