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Waltham Pocket Watch, Serial Number 11470456, Serviced
Pre-OwnedFrom United Statesor Best OfferCustoms services and international tracking providedSERIAL NUMBER 1! WALTHAM FACTORY CASE MODEL 1872 POCKET WATCH MOVEMENT ANTIQUE
Pre-OwnedFrom Australiaor Best OfferWaltham Pocket Watch Serial Number 7259263 Made in Massachusetts USA 1900ish (D)
Pre-OwnedTime left7d left0 bidsFrom United Kingdom+$19.04 shippingOmega Vintage Pocket Watch Movement Serial numbered .
Pre-OwnedFrom United KingdomBuy It NowWALTHAM Mass A.W.W. Co Pocket Watch Movement Serial Number 7563843
From Irelandor Best OfferWaltham Broadway 7j 18S Model 1877 Silveroid Hunter's Case KW/KS Pocket Watch
Pre-OwnedTime left20m 45s left5 bidsFrom United StatesCustoms services and international tracking providedAntique Waltham Open Face Pocket Watch 18S RUNS! Model 1883
Pre-OwnedTime left5h 51m left14 bidsTop Rated PlusFrom United StatesCustoms services and international tracking providedantique pocket watch movement-Waltham 12s
Pre-OwnedTime left4h 45m left1 bidFrom GeorgiaAmerican Waltham Antique Canadian Dial Sidewinder Grade 620 Pocket Watch / 1906
Pre-OwnedTime left11h 35m left8 bidsFrom United StatesCustoms services and international tracking providedANTIQUE WALTHAM GRADE 22 MODEL 1888 16s 11j POCKET WATCH RUNS AMAZING! SERVICED!
Pre-OwnedTime left12h 5m left11 bidsFrom United StatesCustoms services and international tracking providedWALTHAM DOMINION RAILWAYS MODEL 1883 POCKET WATCH THREE STAR RARITY
Pre-OwnedFrom United Statesor Best OfferCustoms services and international tracking providedAmerican Waltham Antique Keywind Pocket Watch in Coin Silver Case Broadway -1884
Pre-OwnedTime left11h 56m left17 bidsFrom United StatesCustoms services and international tracking providedANTIQUE WALTHAM pocket watch for parts or restoration
Pre-OwnedTime left3h 3m left5 bidsFrom United StatesCustoms services and international tracking provided1897? Waltham 17 Jewel Pocket Watch Gold Tone Color Serial # 8336633 Runs Great
Pre-OwnedFrom United StatesBuy It NowCustoms services and international tracking providedWALTHAM 23 JEWEL VANGUARD POCKET WATCH 16S C1906
Pre-OwnedFrom United Statesor Best OfferCustoms services and international tracking provided13 WatchingWALTHAM 18S MODEL 1892 GRADE 845 RAILROAD GRADE POCKET WATCH IN A B&B ROYAL CASE
Pre-OwnedTime left11h 25m left0 bidsFrom United StatesCustoms services and international tracking provided+$25.10 shippingBall Waltham 1901 Railroad Pocket Watch 19 Jewels Adjusted 16s Runs Great!
Pre-OwnedFrom United Statesor Best OfferCustoms services and international tracking provided13 WatchingWaltham International gold filled pocket watch white dial Roman numbers runs#2
Pre-OwnedTime left4h 52m left0 bidsFrom United StatesCustoms services and international tracking provided+$20.32 shippingVINTAGE WALTHAM POCKET WATCH 18S STERLING 1883 /7J 5 OZ COIN SILVER CASE
Pre-OwnedTime left11h 34m left0 bidsFrom CanadaAmerican Waltham Pocket Watch Movement Tin
Pre-OwnedTime left51m 18s left0 bidsFrom United StatesCustoms services and international tracking providedWALTHAM POCKET WATCH 6 SIZE GOLD FILLED HUNT CASE RUNNING - JH173
Pre-OwnedTime left12h 11m left0 bidsFrom United StatesCustoms services and international tracking providedantique pocket watch movement-Waltham 12s
Pre-OwnedTime left5h 21m left5 bidsFrom GeorgiaSTUNNING WALTHAM pocket watch RARE ILLINOIS CASE
Pre-OwnedTime left1d 11h left0 bidsFrom United StatesCustoms services and international tracking provided1900'S A.W.W.CO. WALTHAM,MASS - 15 JEWELS - G.F POCKET WATCH.SERIAL # 21085793
Pre-OwnedTime left1d 23h left0 bidsFrom United StatesCustoms services and international tracking providedWaltham P.S. Bartlett Pocket Watch 1901 17J 18s Model 1883 Gold Case 10520285
Pre-OwnedTime left14h 10m left9 bidsFrom United StatesCustoms services and international tracking provided12s - Antique 1924 Waltham hand winding pocket watch movment w. steel dial
Pre-OwnedTime left13h 35m left8 bidsFrom United StatesWALTHAM POCKET WATCH! 18S 15j w/SWINGOUT TRAIN CASE - RUNNING - ANTIQUE - TB237
Pre-OwnedFrom United StatesBuy It NowCustoms services and international tracking providedAntique 1901 Waltham Riverside Model 1899 Pocket Watch Movement Runs 16s 17j
Pre-OwnedFrom United StatesBuy It NowCustoms services and international tracking providedWALTHAM 16S POCKET WATCH - model 1888 Circa 1893 - AD118
Pre-OwnedFrom United StatesWas: Previous Price$49.99Customs services and international tracking provided+$21.71 shippingWALTHAM APPLETON TRACY 'PREMIER' 18S 17J UNCOMMON MODEL 1892 POCKET WATCH MVT
Pre-OwnedTime left10h 31m left12 bidsFrom United StatesCustoms services and international tracking providedNew ListingAntique Waltham Hillside 1874 Woerd's Pat. Pocket Watch Movement 14s 7j Runs
Pre-OwnedFrom United StatesBuy It NowCustoms services and international tracking providedBeautiful Sterling Silver Waltham Half Hunter pocket watch 1926
Pre-OwnedFrom Netherlandsor Best OfferFree ReturnsWaltham 18s Pocket Watch / Crescent St. 21 JEWELS ADJUSTED
Pre-OwnedTime left4h 36m left0 bidsFrom United StatesWALTHAM VANGUARD 23 JEWEL 18S HUNTING CASE RAILROAD POCKET WATCH MVT
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- American Waltham Watch Company. SERIAL NUMBERS. Under 50 1852.
- This identifies the watch as being made by the American Waltham Watch Co. The grade of the watch is a Riverside. The movement has been adjusted. The serial number (3097487) allows you to date this watch. This pocket watch was made in 1886. You can find this information on the American Waltham page.
| Industry | Horology |
|---|---|
| Fate | moved to Switzerland 1957 |
| Founded | 1850 |
| Headquarters | Waltham, Massachusetts, United States |
| Products | Watches, clocks & aircraft clocks |
| Subsidiaries | Waltham International SA |
| Footnotes / references see Waltham International SA (Switzerland) & Waltham Aircraft Clock Corporation, Alabama (U.S.A.) | |
The watch is a 21 jeweled pocket watch in working order. Great condition with minor wear to the back of case. The celluloid stamp holder is in good condition with a split on one side. Selling Price: $1,037 not including buyer's premium (Morphy Auctions - 12/15) Continue to 5 of 11 below. Results 49 - 96 of 260 - I have for sale this solid 14K gold Waltham watch complete with solid. Hunting case, Serial number 10292596, model Seaside.
The Waltham Watch Company, also known as the American Waltham Watch Co. and the American Watch Co., produced about 40 million watches, clocks, speedometers, compasses, time fuses, and other precision instruments between 1850 and 1957. The company's historic 19th-century manufacturing facilities in Waltham, Massachusetts have been preserved as the American Waltham Watch Company Historic District.
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History[edit]
In 1850, at Roxbury, Massachusetts, David Davis, Edward Howard, and Aaron Lufkin Dennison formed the company that would later become the Waltham Watch Company. Their revolutionary business plan was to manufacture the movement parts of watches so precisely that they would become fully interchangeable. Based upon the experience of earlier failed trials, Howard and Dennison eventually perfected and patented their precision watch making machines, creating what has been called the American System of Watch Manufacturing.
American Horologe Company (Warren Manufacturing Company)[edit]
The original name of the company, which began operations in 1851, is unclear. Some sources say the name was the 'American Horologe Company'. However, in 1886, Dennison stated that the first company name was the Warren Manufacturing Company, named for General Warren of Roxbury, a famous soldier of the War of Independence. The word 'watch' was specifically omitted to retain secrecy of the novel operation.
In 1851, production began in a new factory building. In late 1852, the first watches were complete. The first 17 watches, which ran for 8 days, and were marked 'Howard, Davis & Dennison', were distributed among company officials. Number 1, given to Howard, is now at the Smithsonian Institution. Numbers 18 to 100 were named 'Warren, Boston' and the following 800 'Samuel Curtis', after the financial backer of the company. A few, marked 'Fellows & Schell', sold for $40. January 1853 saw the introduction of the 'P.S. Bartlett' watch, named for early employee Patten Sargent Bartlett.
Boston Watch Company[edit]
In September 1853 the company was renamed the Boston Watch Company. A new factory was built in Waltham, Massachusetts, on the banks of the Charles River, which the company occupied in 1854. Growth of the company prompted significant expansion of these premises, whose surviving elements now date to the period 1879–1913. Now repurposed to residential and commercial use, the complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
The next movements manufactured (1001-5000) were marked 'Dennison, Howard, & Davis', 'P.S.Bartlett', and 'C.T. Parker'. The company had financial difficulties and Howard left to form E. Howard & Co.
Appleton Tracy & Company[edit]
Upon bankruptcy, the company was sold at auction to Royal E. Robbins, who reorganized it under the new name Appleton Tracy & Company (ATCo) with his brother, Henry Asher Robbins, in May 1857. The next movements produced, Serial numbers 5001 to 14,000, were used in the Waltham Model 1857 watch, the first pocket watch produced in America of standard parts. The 'C.T. Parker' was introduced as the 1857 model. 399 units were made.
American Watch Company[edit]
In January 1859 the Waltham Improvement Company merged with Appleton, Tracy & Company, forming the American Watch Company (AWCo). In 1861, as the country entered the American Civil War, production stopped. The company decided to downsize to the lowest possible level to keep the factory open, which was successful.
After the Civil War, the company became the main supplier of railroad chronometers to various railroads in North America and more than fifty other countries. In 1876, the company showed off the first automatic screw making machinery and obtained the first Gold Medal in a watch precision contest at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.
American Waltham Watch Company[edit]
In 1885 the company name changed to the American Waltham Watch Company (AWWCo).
Waltham Watch Company[edit]
In 1907 the company name changed to Waltham Watch Co. (WWCo), in 1923 briefly to the Waltham Watch and Clock Company and finally in 1925 to the Waltham Watch Company (WWC).[dubious]
Two groups of high-quality watches were produced by the company for orders placed by the Canadian Pacific Railway. One large group has the shield and beaver emblem of the Railway engraved on the movements, and is known as the 'CPR' type. The second group has 'Canadian Railway Time Service' engraved on the movements, and is known as the 'CRTS' type. They are both highly prized by collectors.
Serial numbers (2702)[edit]
Waltham Pocket Watch Serial Numbers
Every watch movement that the company produced was engraved with an individual serial number. That number can be used to estimate the date of production. Volunteers have created a database of Waltham serial numbers,[1] models and grades,[2] and descriptions of observed watches.[3]
Waltham Precision Instruments Company[edit]
The company closed its factory doors and declared bankruptcy in 1949, although the factory briefly reopened a few times, primarily to finish and case existing watch inventory for sale. Several different plans were presented to restart the business, but all failed for various reasons. In 1958, the company got out of the consumer watch business completely, and reorganized into the Waltham Precision Instruments Company. All remaining watch inventory had been sold to the Hallmark Watch Company the previous year, and rights to the 'Waltham' trademark were sold to a new Waltham Watch Company incorporated in Delaware in exchange for stock.
Specialized clocks and chronographs for use in aircraft control panels continued to be made in the Waltham factory by the Waltham Precision Instruments Company until the company was sold in 1994. The company is now based in Alabama, as the Waltham Aircraft Clock Corporation.
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Waltham International SA Switzerland[edit]
Before the Waltham Watch Company went out of business in 1957, it founded a subsidiary in Switzerland in 1954, Waltham International SA. Waltham International SA retains the right to the Waltham trade name outside of North America, and continues to produce mechanical wrist watches and mechanical pocket watches under the 'Waltham' brand.
Hallmark Watch Company[edit]
During their restructuring efforts in the 1950s, Waltham opened an office in New York for the purposes of importing Swiss watch movements and cases. Due to restrictions placed on the company by its main creditor, the Restructuring Finance Corporation, they could not sell these watches directly, so they were sold through an independent company, the Hallmark Watch Company.
Waltham Watch Company (Delaware)[edit]
The Waltham Watch Company (later known as Waltham of Chicago) was founded by one of the executives of the Hallmark Watch Company to carry on the Waltham trade name in the watch business. In exchange for rights to the name, existing Waltham Watch Company (Mass) shareholders received 1 share of the new company for every 5 shares of the original company.
In 1959, the Waltham Watch Company merged with the Hallmark Watch Company, giving the new company access to replacement parts to service existing Waltham watch owners. The company came under much scrutiny by the Federal Trade Commission throughout the 1960s, and ultimately was forced to change its advertising and branding policies to clearly indicate that it was not directly related to the original Waltham company, and that its products were not made in America.[4]
Current ownership[edit]
Waltham International SA manufactures and distributes Waltham Swiss Made watches in the luxury watch market. For a period the sales were concentrated in the Japanese market. Since 2011, American entrepreneur Antonio DiBenedetto has been majority owner of the company.[citation needed]
In February 1994, Prime Time Clocks purchased the last remaining product line, the mechanical aircraft clock.[citation needed] Waltham Precision Instruments was moved to Ozark, Alabama. The company then incorporated in the state of Alabama under the name of Waltham Aircraft Clock Corporation.[citation needed]
Historic Waltham watches[edit]
Abraham Lincoln's Watch[edit]
Upon giving the Gettysburg Address in 1863, Abraham Lincoln was presented with a William Ellery, key wind watch Waltham Model 1857, serial number 67613. This watch is now in the collection of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.[5]
Waltham speedometer in a Ford[edit]
The 1937 Ford sedans had Waltham speedometers, reputedly the only speedometer in a Ford to display the name of its manufacturers. A testor at the time was quoted as saying that accuracy had to be 'plus or minus 10 MPH'.
Waltham Watch and the race to the moon[edit]
In early 1962, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers began work on the Apollo navigation system. The engineers' starting point was MIT's revolutionary guidance system, which included gyroscopes and instruments for measuring changes in direction. The guidance system was high mechanical technology, like the precision parts in a watch. MIT engineers, students and staff, led by Dr. Charles Stark Draper, worked closely with the Waltham Watch Company. The MIT team learned how to work with high precision machining while under the operation and direction of military contractor Raytheon Space and Information Systems Division Waltham Operations.[6] Mechanical gyroscopes, spinning with ever-higher precision, very low friction, and very low wear, required the utmost accuracy and absence of even the most minute defect. Nobody had ever tried to manufacture precision instruments that would work with such accuracy before the Waltham team. It is said[by whom?] that the hygiene and cleanliness rules of the team were so strict that women were not allowed to wear makeup and if someone had just come back from a sunny vacation, they were forbidden to work near the assembly area for fear that they could have skin flaking off from their suntans.[7]
Waltham watch on the moon[edit]
In 1996, astronaut David Scott, commander of the Apollo 15 mission in 1971, stated that he wore a Waltham watch on his third lunar EVA when his standard Omega Speedmaster Professional chronograph became damaged. In 2014, he confessed that he had made a mistake: 'it was a Bulova, not a Waltham.'[8]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
Waltham Watch Serial Number 10300869 Gold
- ^Waltham serial numbers
- ^Waltham models and grades
- ^Waltham descriptions of observed watches
- ^'Waltham Precision Instruments vs Federal Trade Commission'. OpenJurist. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
- ^'Abraham Lincolns Waltham Pocket Watch'. Antique Time. Retrieved 2009-10-28.
- ^'Raytheon's homepage'.
- ^'Apollo navigation system'. Archived from the original on May 10, 2012.
- ^Apollo 15 Lunar Surface Journal
Further reading[edit]
- Carosso, Vincent P., The Waltham Watch Company: A Case History, Bulletin of the Business Historical Society, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Dec., 1949), pp. 165–187, published by The President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Engle, Tom; Richard E. Gilbert; and Cooksey Shugart, Complete Guide to Watches, Twenty Seventh Edition, January 2007, ISBN1-57432-553-1
- Edward A. Marsh (1896), The evolution of automatic machinery as applied to the manufacture of watches at Waltham, Mass., by the American Waltham Watch Co., Chicago: G. K. Hazlitt & co.
- Sandburg, Carl, Lincoln Collector: The Story of Oliver R. Barrett's Great Private Collection, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949
- Shugart, Cooksey, The Complete Guide to American Pocket Watches, 1981, ISBN0-517-54378-8
External links[edit]
Waltham Watch Serial Numbers
- Waltham Aircraft Clock Corporation.