couldn’t really be protected as a brand name because America was the country. They got into a trademark dispute with another company that started building watches in Waltham, so they wanted to protect that name, and I think that is the main reason. The town of Waltham had become well known, and the name appeared on all of their watches as the location anyway. Collectors Weekly: Why did they change the name to Waltham? The very best, most expensive Waltham watches for all of that roughly 50-year period, from 1859 until maybe 1915 or so, were always labeled American Watch Co. It had many name changes over the years and a couple of small reorganizations and eventually became the Waltham Watch Company in the early 1900s.
was formed, and it’s generally considered to be the first successful company. When the American watch industry first began, the first successful company was called the American Watch Co., and it was founded out of the Boston Watch Company, which had failed in 1859.
I specialize in a few different specific types of pocket watches, but my principal interest is in the Waltham Watch Company, and even more specifically in the American Watch Co. I collect precision clocks, clocks that are very accurate timekeepers, and marine chronometers things like that. Pocket watches are a little bit more manageable, and in some ways more interesting, too. I got interested in clocks in 1967, and I started collecting watches fairly seriously in the early ‘80s.
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