Waltham movement with Roman numerals and a second hand. This movement has a nice tick to it. It is encased in a C.W.C. Co Trademark Case 962169. The case is decorated with floral and flourish accents. The back case cover has a scene with a house or building with a forest in the background. The front case cover has space for personalization, such as owner initials. The dust cover is engraved with the name, “Marie A. Lohr.”
Movement Details:
Classic Watch Case Co., USAd Product Line. Current Product Line. PACIFICA: Size 16, 16S Pocket Watch size MODEL 1 - Unserialized/Unsigned and Signed & Serialized Clearback (Display Salesman) Case. We will have better pictures and links to see the detail image of the model. Brand: Trademark Watch Case Co. Serial Number: 96900; Weight: 1.60 ounces; Diameter: 2-1/16 inches; Size: 16s; Trademark Pocket Watch Case – Back Trademark Pocket Watch Case – Front Trademark Pocket Watch Case – Crystal Trademark Pocket Watch Case – Crown Trademark Pocket Watch Case – Stamp Star Watch Case Co. Defiance Pocket Watch. A solid piece, this double open face pocket watch features a Silveroid case and key-wind movement. It may need cleaning or repair as it is not running at the time of inventory. About the watch.
Grade: Seaside
Movement Serial Number: 8273356
Estimated Production Year: 1897
Run Quantity: 10,000
Total Production: 2,732,218
Size: 6s
Jewels: 11j
Movement Configuration: Openface
Movement Finish: Unknown
Model: 1890
Movement Setting: Pendant
Plate: Unknown Plate
Adjusted: No
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Railroad Grade: No
This case and movement are in good condition. The case is missing the glass crystal. Please see pictures for details. Also, please feel free to contact Collect-Sell with questions or to request additional pictures.
C.W.C. Co
The manufacturer of this case, C.W.C. Co stands for Crescent Watch Case Co. According to “History of the American Watch Case,” Warren H. Niebling, Whitmore Publishing, Philadelphia, PA, 1971.
The company was first known as Chicago Watch Case Co. It started in Chicago in 1882, manufacturing mostly 10K gold cases. One of the incorporators of the Chicago Watch Case Co. was Martin S. Smith of Detroit, who had become somewhat wealthy and invested in various business, especially lumber. He is the same M. S. Smith of the Detroit jewelery concern, and of the rare M. S. Smith watches. It is not clear that he is associated with the Chicago Watch Case business after its move to Brooklyn. Around 1885, the Chicago Watch Case Co. moved to Brooklyn, NY, where it was reorganized and renamed the Crescent Watch Case Co. All production was sold through the Waltham Co. agents, Robbins & Appleton.
In 1904 the Crescent Watch Case Co. was merged with the Philadelphia Watch Case Co., Bates and Bacon, and the Keystone Watch Case Co. The new company relocated to Riverside, New Jersey. Regardless of the company’s name, the cases continued to be stamped with the previous, well-known trade names.
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Elgin National Watch Company
In the spring of 1864 half a dozen ambitious Chicago businessmen decided that if Massachusetts could build a factory that built watches – Illinois could, too. Harper’s magazine summed their sentiment perfectly: “It was the genuine, audacious, self-reliant Western spirit.” By August of that year this consortium, including then-Chicago mayor Benjamin W. Raymond, purchased an abandoned farm 30 miles north of Chicago and built a watch factory there. After a year of designing and building the lathes and machines to achieve seemingly impossible levels of precision, a team of watchmakers and mechanical engineers produced their first pocket watch movement, named for mayor “B.W. Raymond.” The watch was exquisite: Elgin National Watch Company was born.
By 1910, word of Elgin’s obsession with precision had spread around the world. Elgin engineers built their own Observatory to maintain scientifically precise times in their watches. Later, their accurate “wristlet” watches proved to be vital to the WWI war effort, helping to fuel a craze back in the states for something called “The Wrist Watch.” By the opulent Jazz Age, if you weren’t displaying the exuberant symmetry of an Elgin wrist watch or carrying a svelte, distinctive Elgin pocket watch, then who were you? Elgin had helped define the American pocket watch as unsurpassed in “Railroad Accuracy.” By 1930, the post Civil War dream factory imagined by a handful of American entrepreneurs had produced 32 million “time machines.”
During World War II, all civilian manufacturing was halted and the company moved into the defense industry, manufacturing military watches, chronometers, fuses for artillery shells, altimeters and other aircraft instruments and sapphire bearings used for aiming cannons.
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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. Over the course of a century, the dream factory just north of Chicago had produced half of all jeweled pocket and wristwatches manufactured in the United States.
The legendary Elgin watch has become woven into the fabric of America:
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- Robert Johnson, pre-eminent Delta bluesman, sang “She’s got Elgin movements from her head down to her toes” in his 1936 recording of “Walkin’ Blues”.
- NBA Hall of Famer Elgin Baylor was named after the Elgin National Watch Company.
- Daniel Beard’s sketches of an angel at the end of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court are based on the Elgin National Watch Company’s logo.
- The Steeleye Span album Bloody Men contains a track titled “Lord Elgin”: ostensibly a love song, it is, in fact, about the Lord Elgin Watch.
- Elgin Watch Company is referenced in the video game L.A. Noire, which takes place in post-World War II Los Angeles.