page_title: Star Watch Case Company
section_title: Early history
hierarchical_section_title: Star Watch Case Company / Early history
caption_attribution_description: English: Otto Andrew Starke c1921. One of the three founders of the Star Watch Case Company of Ludington, Michigan. Died 1929.
context_page_description: The Star Watch Case Company was a company in Ludington, Michigan, that operated from approximately 1905 to 1982. It designed and manufactured watch cases.
context_section_description: The Star Watch Case Company Elgin, Illinois started in 1897 making watch cases for the Elgin Watch Company. The founders were Otto A. Starke, Fred Hermann and Alfred W. Church. The company incorporated on February 7, 1905. The first officers of the new Star Watch Case Company were Otto A. Starke as its president; Fred Hermann, vice president; Warren Antoine Cartier, secretary; and Alfred W. Church as the treasurer.  The Illinois Watchcase Company changed its name sometime between 1903 and 1905 to the Star Watch Case Company, which is sometimes referred to as the Star Watchcase Company.
caption: Otto A Starke, a company founder[8]
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