![]() Conflicting information exists about the fate of the Russian enterprise, but Henry Fried, a horology professor at New York University, reported seeing Dueber-Hampden machinery being used in China in 1986. Nearly 30 boxcars of machinery left Canton in 1931 with 21 former Dueber Hampden employees who contracted for one year to teach the Russians the craft of watchmaking. Vrettman went bankrupt in 1927 and sold all of the company's equipment to Amtorg, a Russian purchasing company. Dueber sold the company to Walter Vrettman in 1925. Hampden produced some very fine quality watches, and introduced the first 16 size, 23 jewel movement made in America.ĭueber controlled all aspects of the company from manufacturing to sales. By 1890, the company was producing 600 watches a day, had 1000 employees, and possessed net assets of $2,600,000. ![]() in Springfield in 1888, then moved it to Canton. In order to remain in business, Dueber bought the Hampden Watch Co. At about this time an anti-trust law was passed and the watch case manufacturers formed a boycott against Dueber. You need to open the watch and get the serial number off the movement itself, this tool does not decode case serial numbers. Dueber had been manufacturing watch cases since 1864 and bought controlling interest in a case company in about 1886. The Elgin watch serial number decoder Find the manufacture date of an Elgin watch This lookup tool will decode the Elgin MOVEMENT serial number to an approximate date of manufacture for a vintage Elgin watch or pocket watch.
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