These production numbers make the company the largest American watch manufacture by volume. The company would end up producing over 60 million watches over the next 100 years. New Elgin watches sold for around $120 brand new. The company began selling pocket watches as the American Civil War was coming to an end around 1867. Raymond.вЂќ The Elgin Pocket Watch Dominance The very first Elgin movements the company produced were labeled the вЂњB.W. Since the city of Elgin donated 35 acres to the group of watch entrepreneurs for their new headquarters, they decided to name the company after the city. Adams, who was working at the Waltham Watch Company at the time, to invest in a new watch company. Shortly after that, he was convinced by J.C. Next, Raymond was president of the Fox River Railroad. He started the first woolen factory in Elgin, Illinois. Raymond has a successful business career. One of the Elgin Watch Company founders was B.W. ThatвЂ™s over three billion seconds the tiny watch has ticked time away! Since 1919, this amazing pocket watch has been functioning perfectly. ItвЂ™s amazing to look at a one hundred year old Elgin pocket watch and hear it tick. During the trip, the pitch was made to seven watchmakers from Waltham to join the newly formed Elgin group. in Massachusetts for an all-out recruiting blitz.

The Chicago founders visited the American Waltham Watch Co. Having star power and name recognition within the original group of co-founders was a great tactic, but now, they needed watch-making expertise. Another Elgin founder, George Montague Wheeler, was a famous mapmaker and explorer. Philo Carpenter was regarded as the first pharmacist in the state of Illinois. This eclectic mix of founders were from many different walks of life, but they all were proven successes in their fields. An article in HarperвЂ™s magazine was quoted as stating, вЂњIt was the genuine, audacious, self-reliant Western spirit.вЂќ Just a few months later, the company name would change to the Elgin National Watch Company. To build the best pocket watch company in the United States. In 1864, the National Watch Company was incorporated in Chicago, Illinois, by a group of men with various interests but one common goal. Enormous Aspirations From the Very Beginning In 1910, the city of Elgin was established. The watch was so popular they decided to name the town after the watch. One of the citizens of the small town possessed their very own Elgin, possibly the only pocket watch of its kind for hundreds of miles. The pocket watch brand also inspired a group of settlers to name their city, Elgin, North Dakota, after the company. ThatвЂ™s right, Elgin Baylor, who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association, was named after the Elgin pocket watch. Very few people know that a Hall of Fame basketball player and an entire town was named after a brand of pocket watches. The Elgin pocket watch is where to begin. Searching for an antique vintage pocket watch built with incredible precision, offering amazing value and representing one of the most iconic American watch brands of all time.

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