Watches made by Waltham are popular among collectors.
How To Find Out How Much Your Waltham Watch Is Worth? Photo by Joe Haupt from Flickr So if you’re wondering where Waltham watches are currently being made, the answer is that they’re currently produced in Switzerland. Today, a Swiss company, led by an American businessman of Italian origin, owns the former American watch company’s shares. Sadly, however, problems of a different sort ended the company’s run in the mid-1950s. The founding of the Waltham Watch Company, whose machinery proved capable of producing precise and interchangeable parts, solved these difficulties. This often lead to imprecision even when the pieces fit together. To make a watch, one needed to visit different workshops to collect the necessary parts.Īfter the watch parts were collected, they still had to be assembled by hand. By the way, did you know that the company’s former complex located in Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA is among the earliest manufactories to produce watches on a large scale?īefore Waltham’s manufactory saw the light of the day during the 1850s, producing watches was a tiresome business at best. To answer the question of whether Waltham watches are valuable, we need to go back to the company’s origins, including the beginning of its foray into watch production. Several centuries later, Waltham watches became known as affordable timepieces made for the Asian market.
Among them is the use of a Waltham watch by Charles Lindberg on board the Spirit of Saint Louis in the 1920s, the first non-stop transatlantic flight in history. Howard clock name enjoys outstanding name recognition.įor a more in-depth reading of Edward Howard and his various businesses, please read “Willard’s Patent Time Pieces” written by Paul Foley.Waltham is an old watch manufacturer that has had many ups and downs throughout its history.
As a result, Howard clocks have become very collectible and are prized by their owners. Howard Clock company never made an inexpensive clock, and everything they made was of very good quality. Howard also sold a large number of watchman and salve clock systems. After the dissolution of Howard and Davis, Edward Howard became Boston’s leading manufacturer of weight-driven residential, commercial, and tower clocks. The Howard & Davis firm made high-grade clocks, precision balances, sewing machines, fire engines, watches. Both men served their clock apprenticeship under the guidance of Aaron Willard Jr in Boston. The Howard and Davis firm was comprised of Edward Howard and David P. Howard & Company succeeded the Howard & Davis firm in 1857. This clock is designed to run for 8 days on a wind and was made circa 1870.Ībout Edward Howard of Boston, Massachusetts. The weight is cast iron and is original to this clock. It not only provides a guide for the weight or protection for the pendulum but is also used as a field of color for the pendulum to swing in front of. The middle tablet has experienced some minor losses to the black. The tablets or glasses found in this clock are painted in the traditional E. The rings alternate with a a plain design to a design of damascene. The brass is decorated with a number of concentric engraved rings. The flat pendulum rod is made of seasoned cherry and retains its’ original gilding. The Maker’s name can be found die-stamped on the front plate. The weight driven movement is brass and of very good quality. The 8 inch dial is iron and retains it’s original signature which is done in a script format. The condition of which is very good making this a very desirable example. The case is made of black walnut and it retains an older if not original finish. This example is the smallest of 5 different sizes measuring 2 feet 9 inches long. This model number 10 or the “Figure Eight” form is arguably one of the most attractive antique wall clock forms in today’s marketplace.