Manufacturer
Elgin National Watch Company
Also recorded as: Elgin · National Watch Company
One of the largest American watch manufacturers, producing tens of millions of movements.
Founded as the National Watch Company in 1864 with former Waltham staff, the company was renamed Elgin National Watch Company in 1874. It produced pocket and wristwatches, railroad grades and wartime instruments in vast numbers; its serial numbers allow movements to be dated.
- Country
- United States
- City / centre
- Elgin, Illinois
- Founded
- 1864
- Status
- Defunct (US watch production ended 1960s)
- Key people
- Benjamin W. Raymond
Innovations & specialities
- High-volume industrial watch production
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