Nice piece of watch history.
Here’s the 17th April 1888 patent for a “Stem Winding and Setting Watch” granted to Walter D. Davies of Brooklyn, New York, assignor to the Ansonia Clock Company of Ansonia, Connecticut. Walter was the brother of Henry J. Davies, the president of the company and one of its founders after the clock-making business was spun off from the Ansonia Brass Company.
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This invention relates to watches of cheap and strong construction, which can be very cheaply produced by such machinery as is used in the manufacture of clocks. The object of the invention is to provide for the use of a very long and strong mainspring, and to provide for such spring a cheap and strong stem-winding mechanism with which is combined a simple mechanism for setting the hands; and the improvement consists in certain novel combinations, hereinafter described and claimed, of the parts of a watch whereby these results are obtained.
The accompanying drawings represent as much of a watch-movement as is necessary to illustrate my invention, all parts not necessary for such illustration being omitted.
