Rare, 1886 American Waltham Watch Co 160g 14K Multicolored Gold Pocket Watch

Description: Rare, 1886 American Waltham Watch Co 160g 14K Multicolored Gold P.S. Bartlett Pocket Watch. This exquisite piece of watch history is well preserved and is running. The watch is in beautiful condition, especially for a piece that is nearly 140 years old. The multicolored gold appliqués and fine engravings can only truly be appreciated in person which of course is how a watch is admired best. This watch has been cared for and rarley used for over the last decade. Excellent crystal and crown. Case measures 54mm with 44mm dial with roman numerals and blue steel hour hand. Authenticity guaranteed. watch weighs 160g with movement. History:Waltham Watch CompanyIndustryWatchmaking and ClockmakingFounded1850FounderAaron Lufkin DennisonHeadquartersWaltham, Massachusetts, U.S.ProductsWatches, clocks, aircraft clocksThe Waltham Watch Company, also known as the American Waltham Watch Co. and the American Watch Co., was a company that produced about 40 million watches, clocks, speedometers, compasses, time delay fuses, and other precision instruments in the United States of America 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 DistrictOne of the early employees of the Boston Watch Company, a precursor to the Waltham Company, was a man named Patten Sargeant Bartlett. From Henry G. Abbot’s “History of the Watch Factories of America" we learn that Bartlett’s family was one of the oldest and most famous puritan families in Massachusetts and that his great uncle, Josiah Bartlett was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. P.S. Bartlett left Waltham to assist in the organization of the National Watch Company at Elgin Illinois. He eventually wound up working for Waltham again as a salesman and then ran his own wholesale business. Some of the earliest Waltham movements were engraved “P.S. Bartlett”.

Price: 12000 USD

Location: New York, New York

End Time: 2024-08-30T00:30:01.000Z

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