The Auburndale Watch Company (1959)
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Edwin A. Battison's horological history studies the Auburndale Watch Company and its rotary watch as an early American attempt at an inexpensive dollar watch. (Open Library)
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- Auburndale watch
- The book centers on the real Auburndale rotary watch and traces its design relationship to later inexpensive American watches.
Source text: This paper is based on a study of the patent model of the Auburndale rotary and other products of the company in the collections of the National Museum, and of other collections, including that of the author. (Project Gutenberg ebook 29934)
- Waterbury watch
- Battison repeatedly compares the Auburndale/Hopkins design path with the later Waterbury watch, noting where the designs diverged.
Source text: Here, where the story of the Hopkins watch diverges from the interests who later brought out the rival Waterbury watch, it seems appropriate to call the reader's attention to the basic points of novelty and merit in the Hopkins watch which carried over to what became the Waterbury, somewhat as an hereditary characteristic passes from generation to generation. (Project Gutenberg ebook 29934)