New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-05-02
ruK AMERICAN WATCH COMPANY

IL. .oorr.,a subdivisions OF time; anu 'N :.
rbsn, the artisan, the professional man. 80 iii
Yorna.r nina, be able TO summon from dis ~.
Oh. instrnm.n, which points the hour.
go ~ .,acti,udes. Every ore OF THIS oa'y 80
e. rr., tnox dozen times a day, preois0v W.
=. 49,, .h,oroIoo;oally The note io' '"''",
u.,L,bxanm m. The difference oe'"een sn"'
g. ~. f,.c,;on Of minute ia'sr ID 'ho u.i''
,,,,i,tsd commercial repute and GAM
-. IT.. cars start ~ g. Unless the wa'on
-. - .dmopish the traveller, be reaches Tue
"s"o " IN state Of eager perspiration,
'"ao" 80 ,.e tho exasperstng train driving
n,,d.r full press of steam. thousand tunes
s'.. ann end sun 10 felt the need OF consultation
~. nat;snt little familiar which, bived In the
-a;.,cos, pocket, ticks away increasingly as the
s.r, Of all the days traverse its dial The fact that
chs, become 90 general o necessity givesimporanoe
"a the circumstance that are no longer Dependent
mon q foreign market for q supply, and that 10
American ingenuity, aided by American capital and
American enterprise, are indebted Tor the anP'o
and constant production Of watches which IN al TO-
snects are equal and in many important particulars
supsrior to the best articles Of European mahuisc
turs The American Watch Company OF Waitnam'
Massachusetts,, established in 1871, has grown in'o
pr,ortiops which entitle it to first rank among TUG
,n.cnfsc,uriug enterprises of America. II employs
be veen 400 and 500 artisans, and produces an agee
,,s,s Of nearly $4,000 watches per snnum. Inc
S,sy,v If these instruments has been thoroughly
Tasted by minute comparisons, and the result Is DC
ris.1lv IN favor of the home made over the imported
article. The principal difference arises from the
xrods NJ manufacture Foreign watches are made
principally by hand, and finished one at q
time. All these mysterious and infniusmai
organs which, when aggregated, produce the
watch. are the fruit Of slow and toilsome manual
proc.sses In the results there must OF course DO
lack Of uniformity. The constituent parts Of the
American watch are fashioned by machinery.
Wheels ppious, springs, screws, absolutely uniform
In weight circumference, dimensions, and In every
,o..;bls nar,icular. are turned out in myIads
bv uuerring iron hands The difficulty of man.
ufaoturing BY hand such trivial miracles Of
metal must be evident. 1t involves such digital
GINNING such superlatve acutsness Of eye, such
unnatural patience Of effort that it is almost won
der how tie workshops of Geneva and La Chaux
do Ponds continue TO replenish their srme'
of operators But in the Walthsm manufsc'
cory these delicate particles are produced by
machinery. For example, coil Of fine wire
weighing a pound is divided and worked out
snto soris 100000 screws, each the counterpart OF
every other and curious fact In relation to this magi'
cal transformation s that the cost Of the wire before
a. enters the nschins is about s., and that when IL
emerges, its product is valued at $500. The e1-
oustely finished, though almost invisible particles,
ore put away in tiny glass vias like those In which
physicians carry the pellets wherewith they e1as-
perste the intesnes Of men. The wheels and piyots
are created by similar methods. The jewels like
wise are drilled by unsrrins machinery. Scarcely
larger than grains Of sand, they must yet each be
probed with clean round oriics to admit the dainty
ahsf, upon which tho wheels Of the watch revolve
Th,. /. accommodated BY H cans Of drills 90 delicate
that they almost slude the unfamiliar vision. The
ara ma Bue an the faments Of q SPIDERS web, yet o
vtrong and hard tina. they tunnel out these Lilpu
tian CRYSTALS with the swiftest precision. Wit
equal regularity and uniformity the process continue
to the end After the hole Is bored its interior i
subjected to perfect polish which 10 impaired b.
rapidly revolving drills fed with diamond dust. TIL
level il then ready 10 take its place in the watch
the correctness of its aperture being measured b.
gauges 20 delicate 90 to indicate the ten thou
sandtb part If an inch After such similar adjus
mont the various parts are al divided into classes
each bearing an unvarying relation 10 the rest.
one practical and easily appreciated result OF tn
perfect correspondence it may be instanced that Il
owner Of a watch OF which by accident any part &c
lost or injured has but to address the comp any il
closing the number Of his watch, and Stating the o
gan wanted, screw, wheel, jewel, spring, or whit
not, and forthwith by return mail comes the desre
article, which any matchmaker may adjus. TO il
place.
1t will hardly be credited that some Of the watche
Of foreign manufacture contain 900 or 700 part
Walthsm watches are made without the fuze
proper sochronism, and tho evils Of which ar
irremediable. 1t il needless TO say that tn
moro intricate the works Of a tme-pieco tb
greater the probabilities Of rjtry. and the less tn
chance Of uniform accuracy Of performance. Thu
hnt duty of watch is to keep good time. Its othe
uses are decorative and subsidiary. The simple
its mechanism the trustworthy its action; ant
the system upon which watches arc constructed BY
The American Company is the very perfection o
simplicity. The motive power is applied directly x
the purpose, and 10 not dsspated amid useless com
plics.ion Of machinery. The Importance Of this sx
creme simplifcation Of structure must be apparent
The motive force has longer to vitalize cumbroui
and unnecessary impedimenta, friction Is lossened
obe-half, and the LIABILITY to fracture two-thirds.
Aimos. every one has inspected with be-
~..d,.ms1t the interior Of those plethoric bulbs
"a British origin, known as bulls eyes, and
70ted for never being right. They disclose,
Naer opened TO the light Of day, nightmare
Z reeopdi,s machinery, propelled with alternate
cor and anguor BY some ia,pnsoned force tie ori.