Manufacturer
American Waltham Watch Company
Also known as: Waltham, Boston Watch Company
Pioneer of machine-made watches with interchangeable parts.
Aaron Lufkin Dennison and partners sought to industrialise watchmaking. Waltham's machinery astonished observers at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition.
- Country
- United States
- City
- Waltham, Massachusetts
- Founded / active
- 1850s (as Boston Watch Co., 1850–54)
- Status
- Defunct (watch production ended 1950s)
- Key people
- Aaron Lufkin Dennison, Edward Howard
Innovations
- Industrial interchangeable-part watchmaking