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The Illinois Watch Company was founded in 1870 as the Springfield Watch Co. of Springfield, IL. An Historical Account of the Illinois Watch Co. is available, re-typed from the pages posted on Greg Frauenhoff 's Website. Illinois turned out about five million watches before being sold to the Hamilton Watch Co. of Lancaster, PA, in 1928.
The suit was decided in the favor of the watch company in the lower courts in 1898, but the decision was overturned in the Supreme Court. The citation for that case is Elgin Nat. Watch Co. v. Illinois Watch Case Co., 179 U.S. 665 (1901), as reported by John F. (in a NAWCC Message Board post on July 11, 2002).
It is an Illinois Watch Company 18 Size, 17 Jewel, Bunn grade, from 1905 with the “Temperature, 6 Positions, Isochronism” marking in the shape of a flag. In this post a little background regarding this scarce Illinois watch. In the second post following, pictures of the watch, s/n 1,742,113.
The Elgin National Watch Co. was the largest American watch company in terms of jeweled movements produced, over 50,000,000 in its approximately 100 years of building watches from 1866 to the 1960s. Following its 1864 start, in which J.C. Adams had a hand, the National Watch Company reorganized, effective Feburary 15, 1865. This was just after ...
Sep 11, 2012. #7. The Illinois Watch Co. made a series of Extra thin size 12 watches, you will notice that your watch is a lot thinner than most size 12 Illinois watches. The 19 jewel A Lincoln was named Grade 527 model 3 and has a ¾ plate movement, they have a Superior jewelled motor barrel on the mainspring and have a special screw ...
Checking the references listed in the [main="Illinois Watch Company"]Illinois Watch Company[/main] Encyclopedia article (and looking at your pictures), Illinois movement serial number 2134870 can be seen to be an 16-size, model 4, grade No. 174, unadjusted, lever-set, hunting movement, having 17 jewels, and a Whipspring-type Patent Regulator.
The Burlington Watch Co., of Chicago, IL, seems to have started up around 1908 and lasted until approximately the mid-to-late 1920s. It was a mail-order sales operation selling directly to the consumer, eliminating the entire distribution and sales network. Almost all of the watches were made under contract by the Illinois Watch Company and ...
In fact, I can STUPIDLY boast of selling an original cased Adams & Perry many years ago along with a John Assmann watch that had a complication for $750.00. And, selling a Hamilton 950E for $55.00 and selling a movement made by Ezra Bowman #12 for $50.00.
The Illinois Watch Case Company and the Illinois Watch Company are two completely separate companies. Using the case serial number will not be of any help. There are no records for watch case companies and any information you have found using the case # will not pertain to your watch.
Organization of the Rockford Watch Co. occurred in 1874. The factory, in Rockford, IL, was completed in 1876 with the first watches getting to the market later that year. At first, production was about ten watches per day. Selling directly to retailers, who had an exclusive in their locale, the company advertised heavily to railroaders and ...