In the spring of 1857, the Boston Watch Company did not have enough money to stay running and was forced into insolvency.
The American Watch Company created and marketed the first successful industrialized watch.īefore 1857, The Boston Watch Company made and sold approximately 5,000 movements and 4,000 cases before it failed financially, and in the factory at the time there was an estimated 1,300 watches in various stages of production that had yet to be finished into complete watches. Prior to that year, pocket watches were not made of standard parts and repairing and making the watches was difficult and expensive. The Waltham Model 1857 is a watch made by the American Watch Company, later called the Waltham Watch Company in Waltham, Massachusetts. Case back inside photo with hallmark of the Waltham watch company model 57
