Raymond, purchased an abandoned farm 30 miles north of Chicago and built a watch factory there. Harper’s magazine summed their sentiment perfectly: “It was the genuine, audacious, self-reliant Western spirit.” By August of that year this consortium, including then-Chicago mayor Benjamin W. turned out to have filed ten trademarks with the government starting in 1891 and filing the last in 1905.In the spring of 1864 half a dozen ambitious Chicago businessmen decided that if Massachusetts could build a factory that built watches – Illinois could, too. The "Fahys Watch Case Company" of Sag Harbor, N.Y. However, some time between 18 he formed the Brooklyn Watch Case company for making solid gold watches.Īfter 1900 he merged the Brooklyn company with the two Fahys companies By 1890, 500 workers were at work there turning out gold filled, silver and nickel cases. In 1882 he merged it with a large factory he had built in Sag Harbor, N.Y.įahys generally made watch cases of either silver, gold filled or nickel cases. He opened a second case shop in Carlstadt, New Jersey in 1861. and set up shop on Nassau Street in New York City in the year 1857. Joseph Fahys came to America in 1848, took his training in Hoboken, N.J. I am assuming that this is genuine example with only the case having been changed from the original. In a solid gold original case usually the cuvette is signed Jules Jurgensen and such a watch (without repetitions) would likely bring about $5000+/- on the auction market today.Īnother problem is that replicas of this Jurgensen rare type two train movement are known. Assume the watch can function with cleaning. Oxidative changes to the coin silver case. Scuffing of the dial in spots but no fractures and general in average- good condition. The case is coin silver made by Fahys in America.
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The movement is signed on the central bifurcated bridge, "Jules Jurgensen, Copenhagen" with no evidence of a serial number. This movement has a pivoted detent escapement (controlled by a coiled spring similar to a balance spring as opposed to a Spring detent which uses a long spring) with jeweled pallets, bi-metallic compensated balance wheel with gold timing screws. The extra barrel and train furnishes the power for the sweep seconds arrangement.
This is a 21 ligne, 25 jewel, nickel finger bridge movement with two trains, having two barrels and one escape wheel. White enamel dial with Roman hours, closed minute track to the outsideĪnd seconds track divided into fifths of a second with Arabic markers placedĮvery five seconds, Breguet steel hands and counterbalanced chronograph sweep seconds steel pointer, along with a subsidiary dial with jumping quarter seconds (marked 1-4). This case was made by the Fahys Watch Case Company (See notes) The damascened cuvette has three winding apertures including two for the double train. On the inside of the cover the name "Fahys, #1 coin" (silver) watch case number "5117258", indicates the watch was likely recased in America, (likely because most of these pocket watches were originally made in solid gold).
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Gentleman's, key wound, key set, two train, diablotine (quarter jump seconds), chronograph hunting case pocket watch in a coin silver Fahys American case, No Serial Number on movement which was made by and is marked for Jules Jurgensen, Copenhagen, Denmark (and Le Locle, Switzerland), circa 1870s.Ĥ6mm diameter, four leaf, coin silver, engine turned hunting case with fluted case edges and hinged cover in the savonette style with the push button pendant and bow placed at the three position.
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