American Waltham 'Hillside' half hunter pocket watch in a silver case with top wind and rocking bar time change hallmarked for Chester c1877. Coin edge case with blue enamelled Roman hours on the outer and internal white enamel dial with black Roman hours and red outer minutes track with blued steel hands and subsidiary seconds dial at 6 o/c. Signed American Watch Company three quarter plate jewelled lever movement with split bi-metallic balance and numbered 1222669 with 'AB' case back numbered 30167.
Case diameter 49.5mm.
The Waltham watch company was founded by Aaron Lufkin Dennison in 1849 in Roxbury Massachusetts. In 1854 they moved to Waltham Massachusetts and the Waltham watch company was born.
The casemaker 'AB' was Alfred Bedford who succeeded to the managership of Waltham in Britain when Seeland left. Bedford subsequently became the general manager in Europe of the Waltham Watch Company - Holborn Circus, London.
Product code: PWFH054
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