![]() The 156 parts of a typical Waltham Pocket Watch were each made on a special machine. Until then, watches were completely handmade. ![]() The factory had many “firsts” in American industry including the first factory to use machines to make watches. The factory was built next to the Charles River. Waltham Watch Company started in 1854 in Waltham Mass. But remember a sweet woman, who would do anything for anyone!Ī brief history of the Waltham Watch Company I have no photo’s, and very few memories of my Great Grandmother, I was six years old when she passed. I then contacted you to fix this watch, it has much meaning and my father held it dearly never fixing this great timepiece. My father has recently become very ill and has now handed the watch to me, his second son, with the first watch going to my older brother. My father has had the watch wrapped in a simple white cloth for over 40 years right next to a second watch given to him by his father. It was kept in a steamer trunk with her Victorian gowns, and prior to her death in 1971 at age 90, she gave the watch to my father (her grandson) because her son, my grandfather, had passed in 1964. He never fixed the watch, and upon his death in Cable county West Virginia in 1963, the watch was left to my Great Grandmother Martha Alice Pittman. ![]() In a farming accident, he fell and it’s said that’s when the crystal was broken. My Grandfather’s mother Martha Alice Blake (my great Grandmother) lost her husband James Grimes in 1927, and in 1934 married Aaron Pittman who owned the watch. The following is information provided by the owner about the history of the watch This Beautiful Waltham Pocket Watch Reassembled and Tested, Repair Complete
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