The Auburndale Watch Company

THE AUBURNDALE WATCH COMPANY - First American attempt toward the Dollar WatchAn interesting part of the watchmaking industry - a well-intentioned endeavor gone wrong. Nevertheless or exactly because of that those rare timepieces still around on the market today fetch high prices amongst collectors.Completely re-typed clearly readable text - no photographic reproduction. Re-arranged layout; all original black-and-white images have been kept.The life of the pioneer has always been arduous. Not all succeeded and many disappeared leaving no trace on the pages of history. Here a painstaking search has uncovered enough of the record to permit us to review the errors of design and manufacture that brought failure to the first attempt to produce a really cheap pocket watch.Published in: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MUSEUMOF HISTORY AND TECHOLOGY UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM Bulletin 218 paper 4 pages 49-68 from 1959 SMITHONIAN INSTITUTION Washington D.C. by Edwin A. Battison associate curator of mechanical and civil engineering Museum of History and Technology at the Smithsonian Institution's United States National Museum