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Elgin National Watch Company
IndustryWatch manufacturing
PredecessorNational Watch Company
Founded1863
FounderPhilo Carpenter
Howard Z. Culver
Benjamin W. Raymond
George M. Wheeler
Thomas S. Dickerson
Edward H. Williams
W. Robbins
Defunct1968
Headquarters
Elgin, Illinois
,
United States
ProductsPocket watches, wrist watches, bomb sights and precision instruments

The Elgin National Watch Company, commonly known as Elgin Watch Company, was a major US watch maker from 1864 to 1968. The company sold watches under the names Elgin, Lord Elgin, and Lady Elgin.

For nearly 100 years, the company's manufacturing complex in Elgin, Illinois, was the world's largest site dedicated to watchmaking.[1]

  1. ^ Aft, E.C. Elgin: An American History Archived 2013-09-10 at the Wayback Machine, 2000. Accessed 16 Sept. 2013

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