Construction of a factory on a 14 acre site just outside Springfield began in early 1870. In 1879, the corporation manufactured 33,285 watch movements.
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Several key employees from the National Watch Company in Elgin, Illinois, joined the new company. In 1880, the corporation manufactured 47,065 watch movements.
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While their altruism was vital to the war effort, Elgin’s patriotism ironically opened an opportunity for the Swiss.
By 1964, after a Mid-Century decade that saw the rise of the elite “Lord and Lady Elgin” series, the original Elgin factory closed.
By the end of 1872, the corporation was producing about 25 movements per day and had sold approximately 10,000 watch movements.
employed 918 people and produced 525 high grade watches per day.
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movements were also advertised as having 'a good reputation with Railroad Men'.
All three grades were available adjusted to temperature and isochronism, with 'adjusted' engraved on the balance bridge.The first movement, delivered in 1867, was named the B. The company produced many of the self-winding wristwatch movements made in the United States beginning with the 607 and 618 calibers (which were bumper wind) and the calibers 760 and 761 (30 and 27 jewels respectively).During World War II all civilian manufacturing was halted and the company moved into the defense industry, manufacturing military watches, chronometers, fuzes for artillery shells, altimeters and other aircraft instruments and sapphire bearings used for aiming cannons. The growing young city of Elgin, Illinois, some 30 miles northwest of Chicago, was chosen as the factory site. In September of the same year the founders visited the Waltham Watch Company in Waltham, Massachusetts, and successfully convinced seven of Waltham's makers to come to work for their new company.Machinery was installed and manufacturing began in the spring of 1871. In 1888 the compant employed 900 people and produced about 400 movements per day. became President, holding the position until his death in 1926. constructed an astronomical observatory on the company grounds, allowing the company to measure its own time with its own equipment. discontinued production of inexpensive watch movements and focused primarily on higher grade movements, specializing on 'watch movements for the use of employees of railroads.' In 1913 the Illinois Watch Co.
Over time a number of additional plants were operated, mostly in Elgin.However, additional plants were located in Aurora, Illinois and Lincoln, Nebraska.There were smaller companies that made watches by hand as far back as the 1700s, but Waltham was the first American company to use the assembly line to mass-produce watches.And second, they made pretty much every type of watch, which no other American company did.
By 1964, after a Mid-Century decade that saw the rise of the elite “Lord and Lady Elgin” series, the original Elgin factory closed.
For nearly 100 years the company's manufacturing complex in Elgin, Illinois, was the largest site dedicated to watchmaking in the world. Four Elgin businessmen agreed to purchase the property and then donated the required 35 acres to the watch company. The company officially changed its name to the Elgin National Watch Company in 1874, as the Elgin name had come into common usage for their watches.
The company was first incorporated in August 1864 as the National Watch Company, in Chicago, Illinois, by Philo Carpenter, Howard Z. The company was re-organized in April 1865 and the factory was completed in 1866. The company built the Elgin National Watch Company Observatory in 1910 to maintain scientifically precise times in their watches.
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By the end of 1872, the corporation was producing about 25 movements per day and had sold approximately 10,000 watch movements.
employed 918 people and produced 525 high grade watches per day.