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The company built the Elgin National Watch Company Observatory in 1910 to maintain scientifically precise times in their watches. The company produced many of the self-winding wristwatch movements made in the United States, beginning with the 607 and 618 calibers (which were bumper wind) and the calibers 760 and 761 (30 and 27 jewels respectively).
Where known, the location of the company and the dates of clock manufacture follow the name. Samuel Abbott; Montpelier, Vermont (1830–1861) Ansonia Clock Company; Ansonia, Connecticut and Brooklyn, New York (1851–1929) Attleboro Clock Company; Attleboro, Massachusetts (1890–1915) Bailey Banks & Biddle; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1832–1846)
The result was a clock that was accurate to the hundredth of a second. In the factory, the sounder audibly ticked off the seconds so that workers could set the watches accurately. After the opening of the observatory, the Elgin National Watch Company adopted the slogan: "Elgin Takes The Time From The Stars And Puts It In Your Pocket".
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... date correction by means of push button at 10 o’clock ... (manual wind, sub-second, 15/17 jewels, 18000vph ...
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A torsion pendulum clock, more commonly known as an anniversary clock or 400-day clock, is a mechanical clock which keeps time with a mechanism called a torsion pendulum. This is a weighted disk or wheel, often a decorative wheel with three or four chrome balls on ornate spokes, suspended by a thin wire or ribbon called a torsion spring (also ...
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Nelsonic Industries is an American electronics manufacturing and development company that operated from Long Island City, Queens, New York City [2] in the early 1980s and throughout the 1990s when it was acquired by the watch-manufacturer, M.Z. Berger.