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The Bulova Watch Company
The Bulova Corporation was founded in 1875 by Joseph Bulova, at a small
premise in Maiden Lane,
New York City. As time
passed Bulova set up its own Swiss watch manufacturing plant and shipped the
high grade movements to the United
States to be fitted in their quality cases.
In 1920, Bulova moved to 580 Fifth
Avenue, New York where
it engaged in the ambitious project of building the first observatory to ever
be constructed on the top of a skyscraper. By the 1930s the Art Deco era
hit USA and Bulova along with Hamilton, Elgin and Gruen watch companies made
some of the most stunning watches to date right up into the 1970's. Elgin Watch Company
Elgin
was founded in 1864, right as the American civil war was coming to an end. The
first watch Elgin made, an 18 sized B W Raymond railroad grade watch, was
finished in 1867 and over the next 100 years, they went on to produce about 60
million watches. Elgin produced their first wristwatch in 1910, leading
most other American watch companies by many years. Along with Bulova, Hamilton
and Gruen, Elgin went on to make some superb watches and in my opinion some of
the best ever seen, especially through 1920-1960 and they carried on
manufacturing quality collectable pieces right through to the 1970's up to the
dawn of the “cheap throw away battery type watch” which killed the market in
these gorgeous watches and forced many original
watch making factories to close.
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