With a beautiful condition double sunk enamel dial with large black enamel arabic numerals, and oversize blued steel spade hands.
Featuring 16-size open face white gold filled screw back case. Conflicting information exists about the fate of the Russian enterprise, but Henry Fried, a horology professor at New York University, reported seeing Dueber-Hampden machinery being used in China in 1986. A very nice condition and attractive vintage Dueber Hampden New Railway railroad grade pocket watch circa 1918. Nearly 30 boxcars of machinery left Canton in 1931 with 21 former Dueber Hampden employees who contracted for one year to teach the Russians the craft of watchmaking. Vrettman went bankrupt in 1927 and sold all of the company's equipment to Amtorg, a Russian purchasing company. Dueber sold the company to Walter Vrettman in 1925. Hampden produced some very fine quality watches, and introduced the first 16 size, 23 jewel movement made in America.ĭueber controlled all aspects of the company from manufacturing to sales. By 1890, the company was producing 600 watches a day, had 1000 employees, and possessed net assets of $2,600,000. This high quality chrome plated steel pocket watch from Dueber. Today, Dueber Watch Company is an American owned brand featuring high-quality pocket watches. They introduced the first watch movement to the market with 23 jewels. in Springfield in 1888, then moved it to Canton. The Dueber Hampden Watch Company was at the forefront of innovations in the American watch manufacturing industry. In order to remain in business, Dueber bought the Hampden Watch Co. At about this time an anti-trust law was passed and the watch case manufacturers formed a boycott against Dueber. Dueber had been manufacturing watch cases since 1864 and bought controlling interest in a case company in about 1886.
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