Watch, Hampden Railroad Watch
date: label: date made
content: ca 1907
name: label: manufacturer
content: Hampden Watch Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This watch, made about 1907, has a special dial and other precision features tailored to the accuracy requirements of railroaders.
label: Description
content: Established in 1877 in Springfield, Massachusetts, the Hampden Watch Company relocated to Canton, Ohio, in 1888. The firm merged with a watch case manufacturer in the same city in 1923 to become the Dueber-Hampden Watch Co. and failed in 1927. The Soviet Union, through its trade representative in the United States, Amtorg Trading Corporation, purchased the firm’s machinery in 1929, shipped it to Moscow and began making watches shortly thereafter.
label: Description
content: Details:
label: Description
content: Movement: Signed: "Hampden Watch Co."; Serial #2191954; Nickel finish, face, full plate, 18 size, stem wind and lever set, regulator on bridge, bimetallic balance, lever escapement, factory ID series IV, 23 jewels, adjusted to 5 positions, movement marked: “NEW Railway 2191954/PATENT PINION/[logo]/23 JEWELS ADJUSTED/Canton, Ohio.”
label: Description
content: Case: replacement, gold-filled, open face, back is engine-turned with central blank cartouche; back screws on and off, marked: “Kingston/GUARANTEED/20 YEARS/2409028”
label: Description
content: Dial: white enamel, double sunk, heavy Arabic hour numerals, outer red ring of Arabic minutes and minute marks, seconds in black at 6, marked: “Hampton Watch Co.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: W. Carl Wyatt Estate
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.317058
label: catalog number
content: 317058
label: accession number
content: 230383
label: serial number
content: 2191954
objectType: label: Object Name
content: watch
label: Other Terms
content: watch; Mechanical, Spring-Driven; Pocket Watch
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: gold (watch case material)
label: Physical Description
content: nickel (watch movement material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 7/8 in x 2 1/8 in x 5/8 in; 7.3025 cm x 5.3975 cm x 1.5875 cm
label: Measurements
content: stem: 3/4 in x 1 in x 3/4 in; 1.905 cm x 2.54 cm x 1.905 cm