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IHC Member 1110
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Does anyone know when the U.S. watch companies got out of the business of making private label watches? I kind of think it may have stopped when the wrist watches started to tale over, but don't really know and I've never seen this talked about before. Thanks!
 
Posts: 1322 | Location: Lebanon, Connecticut USA | Registered: March 28, 2008
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I think that private label pocket watches started to fall out of favor in the 1900s. By the 1910s, the railroad time services had banned their use for railroad operations.
 
Posts: 10 | Location: Tucson, Arizona in the USA | Registered: December 17, 2022
IHC Member 1110
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Thanks Alan.
 
Posts: 1322 | Location: Lebanon, Connecticut USA | Registered: March 28, 2008
IHC Member 1911
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In my database I have private label watches listed up till around 1918 or so- After that you see alot of named watches but very few Jewelers names etc.

Terry
 
Posts: 79 | Location: Central Illinois in the USA | Registered: December 12, 2013
IHC Member 1110
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Thanks for that Terry.I always figured the watch companies made a lot of extra money making PL watches, since most of them did it. I think the king of that must have been Illinois, there seems to be way more Illinois PL watches out there. I think probably South Bend had the least.
 
Posts: 1322 | Location: Lebanon, Connecticut USA | Registered: March 28, 2008
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