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2. Regina pocket watches - Wikipedia

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   The National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors describes Regina watches as an inferior brand of Omega, but mentions that some were adjusted highly enough to be used as railroad timepieces, which was the standard for quality watches. The use of Regina watches for railroad timekeeping is documented on other sites as well. For example ...

3. Pocket watch - Wikipedia

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   Pocket watch. Savonette with cathedral hands and luminescent dial made by Thos. Russell & Son (probably in the 1920’s) A golden pocket watch with hunter-case and watch chain. Pocket watches evolved from clock-watches, supposedly called Nuremberg eggs, worn on chains around the neck. Example by Peter Henlein, 1510, Germanisches Nationalmuseum ...

4. Waltham Watch Company - Wikipedia

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   The Waltham Watch Company, also known as the American Waltham Watch Co. and the American Watch Co., was a company that produced about 40 million watches, clocks, speedometers, compasses, time delay fuses, and other precision instruments in the United States of America between 1850 and 1957. The company's historic 19th-century manufacturing ...

5. Elgin National Watch Company - Wikipedia

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   Pocket watches, wrist watches, bomb sights and precision instruments. The Elgin National Watch Company, commonly known as Elgin Watch Company, was a major US watch maker from 1864 to 1968. The company sold watches under the names Elgin, Lord Elgin, and Lady Elgin. For nearly 100 years, the company's manufacturing complex in Elgin, Illinois, was ...

6. Theodore Roosevelt's pocket watch returns home 37 years ... - AOL

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   Roosevelt had several watches, and while Special Agent Robert Giczy, a member of the FBI Art Crime Team, described it as "a fairly pedestrian Waltham 17 jewel watch with an inexpensive coin silver ...

7. Illinois Watch Company - Wikipedia

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   The Illinois Watch Company was founded on December 23, 1870, in Springfield, Illinois, by John C. Adams, John Whitfield Bunn (1831–1920), and various additional financiers. Twenty years later, Jacob Bunn Jr., (1864–1926) took over and ran the company until his death in 1926. The Bunn family surname was used in their most famous railroad ...