S01E15: American Watchmaking - The Industry That Died and Is Being Rebuilt (Vortic, Cincinnati Watch Co., Weiss, RGM, J.N. Shapiro)

Episode 15: "American Watchmaking — The Industry That Died and Is Being Rebuilt"

You can find a ton of info on more American brands here:

https://americanwatchmakingdirectory.org

Description:

America was once the watchmaking capital of the world (Waltham, Elgin, Hamilton, Gruen)

producing over 100 million pocket watches between 1850 and 1950, inventing the railroad-grade

accuracy standard, and teaching American production methods to European manufacturers.

Then, across the second half of the twentieth century, the industry almost entirely collapsed.

Hamilton's last movement rolled off the…

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