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The Elgin Observatory. The Elgin company was the only watch company of its day to construct an observatory, in 1910, dedicated to measuring time. This was of course long before atomic clocks. According to my Grandfather who toured the observatory in 1936, there was in use there a fixed telescope.
15 kwi 2009 · The company that everybody calls Elgin was originally the National Watch Company. That was the second company that started up. It’s almost like the American League and the National League in baseball. They were always the two biggest.
1 mar 2024 · The majority of the Elgin National Watch Company Father Time marked movements were 21-Jewel, Lever-Set, Nickel Movements, with "Some of the earliest runs may be 20- Jewel" Ed Ueberall and Kent Singer,
25 wrz 2020 · In 1864, this group founded the National Watch Company. They built a plant on 35 acres of land donated by the nearby city of Elgin, Illinois (population 3-4,000). They hired seven of Waltham’s top people, offering them $5,000 a year salary ($95,000 now), a $5,000 signing bonus, and one acre of land to build their homes on.
Some of the earliest high quality American machine-made watches went right into railroad service. The American Watch Co. furnished some model 1857 Appleton, Tracy & Co. watches to the P.R.R. in 1866 and the Elgin National Watch Company B.W. Raymond, built in 1867, also saw service on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Information, serial numbers, specs, and values of American antique pocket watches, with serial number lookups for manufacturers such as Elgin, Illinois, Waltham, and Hamilton.
Elgin Time: A History of the Elgin National Watch Company, 1864 to 1968. Inspiring historical discovery through preserving Elgin's heritage. Mission Statement.
