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Title: The National Watch Co's (Elgin) Illustrated Almanac 1871
Description: Northbrook, IL, 1977. Reprint. . B&W Illustrations; 5 3/8 x 8 1/2 ; 32+ pages; Soft cover is stapled wraps. Slight rubbing to covers. A reprint of an 1871 sale catalogue. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with b/w pictures. '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 the largest site dedicated to watchmaking in the world...The company was first incorporated in August 1864 as the National Watch Company, in Chicago, Illinois, by Philo Carpenter, Howard Z. Culver, Benjamin W. Raymond, George M. Wheeler, Thomas S. Dickerson and W. Robbins. In September of the same year the founders visited the Waltham Watch Company in Waltham, Massachusetts, and successfully convinced seven of Waltham's watchmakers to come to work for their new company. '. Near Fine .

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