Pocket Watch Database
Location: Cheshire, Connecticut
Years of Operation: 1883-1892
Successor: Appleton Watch Co.
Watches exclusively sold by L.W. Sweet in New York City
Production Jewels: 4 Jewels
Production Sizes: 20s, 18s
Total Production: 60,000+
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October 4, 1883
The Cheshire Watch Co. is incorporated in Cheshire, Connecticut with a capital of $100,000. Daniel A. A. Buck designs the first model movement.
April 1885
The Cheshire Watch Co. offers its first watches to the market.
1888
The Cheshire Watch Co. in producing roughly 150 movements each day.
1890
The Cheshire Watch Co. ceases operations and goes into receivorship.
December 2, 1891
The Cheshire Watch Copmany factory, patents, and unfinished material including 5,000 watches is sold at auction to Dr. E.T. Carmalt for $50,500.
Middletown Times-Press, Middletown, New YorkMonday, June 6, 1892
June 1892
Seth Thomas purchases the factory belonging to The Cheshire Watch Co. and remaining stock for $60,000.
1901
The Cheshire Watch Co. machinery is moved to Appleton, Wisconsin for use in the Remington Watch Co. factory under the management of O.E. Bell. The previous Cheshire factory is placed on the market for $7,000.