At the age of 21, Dennison had completed his apprenticeship, declined the offer of a partnership with Cary and went to Boston to further his career. In 1834 he started his own business as a watch repairer. This only lasted two years before he joined Jones, Low & Ball as a watch repairer and learned about the English and Swiss methods of manufacturing.
In 1864 Dennison set up another business, the Tremont Watch Company in Boston. His idea was to purchase the delicate components from Swiss manufacturers where labour costs were lower. The larger components he would produce in America. Dennison left a business partner in charge in America and moved to Zurich to oversee the Swiss operations. The Tremont Watch Company fell into financial difficulties in 1870 and failed. In 1871, Dennison moved to Birmingham, England, where he continued to be involved in watchmaking. In 1874, he identified a niche in the market for high-quality watch cases produced in large numbers and started a company. He patented many designs for air and watertight cases.
Dennison Star Watch Case Serial Number
Originating from a small workshop on the side of the family home, the company was called Dennison, Wigley & Company and it grew to produce 100,000 high-quality watch cases per year. Dennison died in 1895, and he was succeeded in business by his son, Franklin Dennison. The company was renamed the Dennison Watch Case Company Ltd in 1905 and continued as a successful business until 1967. The Dennison Watch Case Company failed in February 1967 due to insolvency and the factory in Birmingham ceased production.
In 1915, the Dennison Watch Case Company registered the brand name, Denco Watch Co. and launched its own line of watches. Up until then, the company had concentrated on manufacturing watch cases. They supplied various watch companies, including Waltham UK. These were likely to be private label watches, made by another firm. There is no indication that Dennison had any in house watchmaking capability. They simply would have purchased the completed and branded movement and inserted them into their own watch cases. The watches were certainly of good quality as they used, as a minimum, 15-jewel movements. However, watch production ceased at the start of World War II when the company started manufacturing military equipment for the British Royal Air Force. I have also seen watches with the Dennison name on the dial and the movement.
I have a Moon case watch which snaps open. I suspect it still works if properly serviced.It was handed down to me and I think it was made about 1900. Serial number 521253.the movement is American Waltham Traveler.I am thinking of taking it to a watchmaker for cleaning to see if it works.it is totally coincidental I saw this post today as I have never searched info on this watch before.
The Dennison Moon is a good quality case. You can date your watch using the Waltham serial number engraved on the movement using this website. This will give you an exact date for the watch. A watchmaker should be able to return it to good working order, which is worth the time, effort and cost for a timepiece with sentimental value. Thanks for commenting, Jason.
Hi I have inherited a dennison case watchSerial number looks like 721275It is a StarJust had it serviced and working fineCould you tell me how old it isOr any information would be appreciated
Hi Andrew,Dennison started using the Star, Moon and Sun marks around 1901. The company became Limited in 1905. If your case states Dennison Watch Case Co. Ltd, it will date from no earlier than 1905. There is no record of serial numbers, but it should be safe to assume they increment over time. I have a Criterion pocket watch with a Sun case, which I have tentatively dated to 1910c. The serial numbers are probably different on each type of case, Open vs Hunter. The only other way to date the watch would be from the movement. I hope this helps. Jason
A movement with 15 jewels and 4 adjustments, would be considered good quality. The Moon grade Dennison watch case is made using layers of 10-carat gold and guaranteed to wear for 20 years. The logo you describe on the movement, sounds very much like the trademark for William Ehrhardt (Fir tree). Ehrhardt was an English watchmaker, but may have imported Swiss movements branded with his own name. If so, the trademark was in use from around 1911. I hope this helps, Jason.
Please use the following tables to help determine the approximate age of your watch. Remove or open the back cover from your watch and look for a number engraved into the movement; this is the serial number for your watch, and by using it, you can find the closest years it was made on these tables. Please note there is a difference between the number marked on the movement and the one marked on the case. These tables are only accurate for the movement serial numbers.
This page contains INSTRUCTIONS for using the serial number look-up tables that are found on many of our watch company history pages. The example below uses information from the American Waltham Watch Company, but that is just an example. You should consult the serial number table for the specific brand of watch movement you are trying to date by selecting a company from the menu on the left.
Not all vintage watches can be dated using the serial number. Some American watch brands did not use a consistent series of serial numbers, but most of the big manufacturers did. Most vintage Swiss pocket watches did NOT have serial numbers and can't be dated by this method.
Many watch companies made hundreds of thousands of watches, and some companies made millions of watches! It would be impractical to list the individual serial numbers of EVERY watch made... that would make some really long pages! Our serial number tables list RANGES of serial numbers. So to determine when your watch was manufactured, you will need to find where your serial number fits within the range of numbers.
Let's say you have a Waltham watch with serial number 21,607,210 as shown in the photo below. Note that we're using the serial number from the watch movement, not from the watch case. Looking at the table of Waltham serial numbers (see example below), you can see that number 20,900,000 was made in 1917 and 21,800,000 was made in 1918 (marked in red in the table below). Since your serial number falls between those two numbers, you know that your watch was made in 1917 or 1918.
You must use the serial number from the MOVEMENT of the watch... the working part with the wheels and gears... not the serial number from the watch case. Cases and watches were often made by different companies and each usually has its own serial number. You usually have to take the back off the watch case to see the movement serial number which may appear anywhere on the watch movement.
Finally, if the pocket watch has a cover, look for "AWco" written on the inside. This will indicate that the cover was also made by Waltham. If there is a "K" with a number, it means that the case is made of gold, with the number indicating how many carats it is. For example, "K18" means the case is made out of 18-carat gold.
Yes, Abraham Lincoln did in fact own a Waltham pocket watch. Upon the Gettysburg Address, the 16th President was presented with a Waltham pocket watch model 1857, serial numbered 67613. The watch is currently on display in the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
I am looking sell my vintage Orator pocket watch. 14k yellow gold hunting cased dress watch with 14k yellow gold , Swiss made in the sixties, manual winding, smooth, 3-piece construction case, hunter cover. Snap on case back and bezel, silvered dial with gilded hour-indices, gilded hands, gold-plated movement calibre Peseux 320, 17 jewels, diameter approx. 43 mm, chain-length approx. 26 cm, total weight approx. 55g
Now the details come into play. You can narrow down the search results using filters like case material, dial, functions, bracelet material, etc. This will make it easier for you to find the correct watch. Scroll through the results. Is your watch there? If so, click on the offer and look at the basic details and the watch description. This is where you will find the name, the reference number, and other information about your watch. At the same time, you will also get an idea of its current market value.
The various numbers on your watch generally serve to date it and to prove its authenticity. While the reference or model number stands for the whole watch, components like the case and movement also have numbers. They tend to be used to determine if a particular component is an original part of the watch. This is especially important for fans of vintage watches with original parts.
The reference number is the model number. It identifies the watch model as a whole. Using the reference number, you can usually learn information such as the watch type, material, dial, and the movement. Since there is no standard rule as to what information has to be included in a reference number, you may find watches with identical reference numbers that are actually different versions of the same model. This can sometimes be the case with Rolex watches.
Following the great train disaster in America in 1891 (the tragedy occurred due to a faulty timepiece), Waltham (and a number of other watch brands, such as Elgin and Hamilton) produced watches to a new set of standards. To qualify as railroad standard, watches were required to meet the following criteria:
Find a fabulous guide to the Waltham watch models here, including a table of Waltham production dates by serial number. As a general rule, the older the watch is the higher the value, though other factors, such as condition will also determine how much your timepiece is worth.
I'm assuming you created this series. If not, pardon the assumption. Several of the variant records were given series data and not the parent title record (because of the pseudonymous editor credits). This causes the title to show up twice on the series list. I've moved the series data from the variant title record to the parent record. That having been said, I'm not sure that these rightfully form a title series, although I suppose a case could be made for it when you think that Orbit, Universe, and New Dimensions, along with many other anthology series have been placed into a title series. The problem in this case is that there are two titles numbered "1" in the series, and it comes up on the clean-up script which finds errors in the numbering of title series. I can't think of a way around it, because it appears they've been numbered based on the conference in which the papers were presented, with two volumes published from the first conference. Alas, the system doesn't allow anything other than a whole integer in the field, so it will have to remain as an error. Mhhutchins 04:10, 7 January 2013 (UTC) 2ff7e9595c
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