Pocket Watch Database

Location: Cheshire, Connecticut

Years of Operation: 1883-1892

Successor: Appleton Watch Co.

Watches exclusively sold by L.W. Sweet in New York City

Production Jewels: 4 Jewels

Production Sizes: 20s, 18s

Total Production: 60,000+

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Company Timeline

October 4, 1883

The Cheshire Watch Co. is incorporated in Cheshire, Connecticut with a capital of $100,000. Daniel A. A. Buck designs the first model movement.

April 1885

The Cheshire Watch Co. offers its first watches to the market.

1888

The Cheshire Watch Co. in producing roughly 150 movements each day.

1890

The Cheshire Watch Co. ceases operations and goes into receivorship.

December 2, 1891

The Cheshire Watch Copmany factory, patents, and unfinished material including 5,000 watches is sold at auction to Dr. E.T. Carmalt for $50,500.

Middletown Times-Press, Middletown, New York
Monday, June 6, 1892

June 1892

Seth Thomas purchases the factory belonging to The Cheshire Watch Co. and remaining stock for $60,000.

1901

The Cheshire Watch Co. machinery is moved to Appleton, Wisconsin for use in the Remington Watch Co. factory under the management of O.E. Bell. The previous Cheshire factory is placed on the market for $7,000.