Rolfe. This required a tremendous amount of time and effort on the part.

Collectors, the NAWCC Special Interest Group Chapter 149, The Early American Watch Club, and the Washington, DC.

If the clock does not have a front opening door, the foil label is normally on the inside of the clock on one of the inside rails.

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Although he was unable to purchase the entire company, he managed to lay claim to the parts and mechanisms that were in the process of being produced.

He also managed to gain the use of all the tools and machinery from the factory.

Howard lost no time in moving all the machinery, tools, parts and existing movements to Roxbury, Massachusetts, where he had aquired a watch making factory.

Howard wanted to produce his own pocket watch however and especially a new, high-grade watch.

The watch he created presented new innovations and improvements not seen in the watch making industry before.

It had a new, fast or quick-beat train, a top plate in two sections with 6 instead of the usual 4 pillars, compensated balance and made in size 18.

These movements by Howard were made until the early 1900s, all had enamel dials and were marked with the inscription E.

Howard Co., Boston.

They produced watches with the name Howard on the dial and E.

Howard Watch Co, Boston.

U.S.A on the movement.

Complete watches (that is - as manufactured) will therefore only ever be found from the Keystone Watch Case Co.

Howard Watch Serial Numbers