American Watchmaking
Rockford Watch Co., USA, 1905.
- Two Swiss reports giving detailed information about American watch production.
Favre-Perret: "Report on the Philadelphia Exhibition 1876" (1877)
- Description of the exhibits and comments on the relative qualities of Swiss and American watches.
Fitch: "Manufactures of the United States at the Tenth Census (1880), Watches and Clocks" (1883)
- Details of machine manufacturing methods and interchangeability.
Houriet: "The American Watchmaking Factories and Their Tools" (1895)
- Detailed but brief study of tools and machines.
Keith: "A Family Tale, or History of American Watch Making" (1883)
- A history, primarily of Waltham, written in response to Aaron Dennison being erroneously described as the "father of American watchmaking".
Marsh: "Two histories of the Waltham Watch Company" (1890 and 1921)
- Written by one of the main mechanics at Waltham.
- An article examining the business of Samuel Jones and the English watches sold by him, circa 1817.
Waterbury Watch Company: "Ali-Baba and the Forty Thieves" (1889)
- A delightful example of watch advertising!
Watkins: "The BHI and American watchmaking, 1858-1862" (2011)
- Subtitled "Three Unfortunate Mistakes", this article looks at the reaction of the British Horological Institute to American watchmaking.
Watkins: "Jacques David and American and Swiss watchmaking in 1876" (2004)
- An article discussing the significance of Jacques David's reports (see David "American and Swiss Watchmaking in 1876").
Watkins: "Mainspring Gauges and the Dennison Combined Gauge" (2009)
- A study of watch mainspring gauges and their inaccuracies.
Watkins: "Watchmaking, the American System of Manufacturing and Mass Production" (2020)
- Detailed study of why successful watchmaking by machinery is based on using unskilled labour.
Illustration: Rockford Watch Co., USA, 1905.