Pocket Watch Database

Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Years of Operation: 1879-1882

Successor: J.P. Stevens Watch Co.

Started by Ezra F. Bowman and Purchased by J.P. Stevens

Production Jewels: 17-21 Jewels

Production Sizes: 18s, 17s, 16s

Total Production: ~50

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Company Timeline

1879

E.F. Bowman is founded in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with the assistance of W.H. Todd, whom designed the first model, a 16s fully-jeweled 3/4-nickel-plate movement.

April 1882

E.F. Bowman decides to devote his time to the wholesale jewelry trade and sells his watchmaking operation to J.P. Stevens Watch Co. of Atlanta, Georgia.

1887

E.F. Bowman starts the Bowman Technical School.