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In 1950, to commemorate Waltham’s 100th anniversary, as part of the celebration, the company released a special edition wristwatch, the Waltham Centennial, a watch that claimed to have a movement with 100 jewels. This watch was designed to commemorate the...

BENRUS Watch Co. INC.    In the early 1920's worldwide pocketwatch manufacture and sales were on the decline, it was then that three young brothers saw an opportunity to begin a wristwatch company, to produce moderately priced watches for the...

BENRUS Watch Company - Founded in New York City in 1921, The Benrus Watch Company is a former American watchmaker founded by three Romanian immigrants: Benjamin Lazrus, his brother Ralph Lazrus, and their friend, Jacques Reymond. The company was named by...

CLINTON Watch Co. To talk about Clinton Watch Co., we should start talking about the Wein family, a Russian family, formally Weinzieher. They emigrated to the US. "Hersh Wein had a large family that would diverge and go on to...

CROTON - NIVADA SA, Grenchen - "Nivada is a Swiss watch company founded in the town of Grenchen, Switzerland. Nivada is a manufacturer of Swiss watches, their timepieces have been in the watchmaking industry since 1926... In the United States, Croton was formed in 1940...

GYCINE WATCH Co."Famous for Accuracy since 1914"Glycine is a Swiss watch company that was founded in 1914. The company is known for producing high-quality, reliable timepieces that are designed to meet the needs of pilots, divers, and other professionals. Glycine...

GRUEN Watch Company One of the most important and prestigious American watch manufacturers! Gruen watch company was an American watch company founded in 1874 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA by German-born watchmaker Dietrich Gruen. "On December 22, 1874, Gruen obtained a...

ILLINOIS Watch CompanyThis timepiece is a vintage Illinois/Hamilton automatic wristwatch dated from 1950's. After +70 years, it still has a very nice white dial with silver applied Arabic Numeral, hour marks and matching hands. It is 32mm round case and...

MENTOR Bader & Hafner Holderbank - Soleure Mentor is a brand of watches registered by Bader & Hafner S.A. / Bader S.A. on July 11th, 1941. The logo for Mentor was registered on January 10th, 1962.Mentor was a range of...

1950's ROBOT AS 1187 Swiss Made Wristwatch This is a vintage ROBOT mechanical watch from the 1950's. It is a manual watch powered by a Colgor Watch Co. movement caliber AS 1187/94, 17 jewels, sweep second hand, unadjusted, 43 hours...

DOXA S.A. is a Swiss watchmaking company that was founded in 1889 by Georges Ducommun in Le Locle, Switzerland. The company started as a small family business, producing high-quality timepieces with precision movements. Doxa also began as a maker of...

DOXA S.A. is a Swiss watchmaking company that was founded in 1889 by Georges Ducommun in Le Locle, Switzerland. The company started as a small family business, producing high-quality timepieces with precision movements. Doxa also began as a maker of...

“Elgin, The Watchword for Elegance and Efficiency.”By the early 20th century, Elgin was producing over 1 million watches per year and was the largest producer of fine watches in the world.ELGIN WATCH COMPANY was a leading American watch manufacturer that...

ENICAR In early 19th century, the two small towns La Chaux-de-Fonds and Granges (Switzerland) became the centers of Swiss watchmaking. In 1854, Racine was well-known family of watchmaking in Granges, playing an instrumental role in the development of mechanical watches....

ERNEST BORELErnest Borel, a Swiss watch manufacturer founded in 1856 In Neuchatel, Switzerland, it builds its reputation by 165 years of watchmaking savoir-faire and heritage. Inspired by the corporate ethos of ‘Romantic Moments’, the creations of Ernest Borel are recognized...

ETERNA-MATIC Watch Co. "First gents automatic-family with ball-bearing rotor" ETERNA VINTAGE AUTOMATIC WATCH Eterna-Matic movement, one of a number of innovations by Eterna, was developed in 1948 as an improved self-winding mechanism using five strategically placed ball bearings in order to...

"Techniques d'Avant Garde" ED. HEUER & Co.  From TAG HEUER website – “The company established by Edouard Heuer in 1860 would rely on two foundations – family leadership and technical innovation.” TAG Heuer is a well-known Swiss watch brand that was...

SPEIDEL - Speidel is a watch bracelet company that has a long and rich history. The company was founded in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1904 by Fredrick Speidel, and originally produced watch chains and jewelry. In the 1920s, Speidel started to...

 LONGINES - "The World's most Honored Watch" "The only watch in history to win 10 World's Fair Grand Prizes and 28 Gold Medals -- to be classified 'first' in competitions organized by the four government observatories; Washington, Kew-Teddington, Neuchatel and...

BULOVA Selfwinding This is a STUNNING timepiece, a vintage Bulova self-winding dated from 1952. It is an automatic wristwatch, 17 jewels movement, caliber 10CMC, sweep second, Swiss made. After +65 years, it still has a nice silver dial with gold...

GRUEN Veri-Thin "Gruen Watch Company, one of the most important and prestigious American watch manufacturers, founded by a brilliant German horologists, Dietrich Gruen and later by his son Fred Gruen. Early Gruen watches included pocket watches and wristwatches for men...

GRUEN Watch Company One of the most important and prestigious American watch manufacturers. Gruen watch company was a watch manufacturer founded in 1894 as "D. Gruen & Son" by a brilliant German horologists, Dietrich Gruen and his eldest son Frederick...

Hamilton Watch Company, which was a major American watch manufacturer that was known for its innovative designs and produced a wide range of high-quality timepieces from the late 19th century to the late 20th century.  HAMILTON 1952 Boulton-B Cal. 754 19 Jewels Wristwatch  Introduced in 1940...