Figure lo. WiiiiAM B. {•'owi.K, sponsor of the 

 Auburndale Watch Co., after an engraving in S. F. 

 Smith, History of Newton, .Massachusetts (Boston, 1880). 



in mechanical work, much less watch manufacturins;. 

 Those with watchmaking experience who were 

 brought into this new organization unquestionably 

 did their best, based on past experience confined to 

 conventional watches of much higher grade. Judging 

 from the products turned out, however, they had great 

 difficulty in making a clean f)reak with their past and 

 in producing a satisfactory low-priced watch of new 

 and radical concept. The market for watches, which 

 had been depressed, was at this time reviving a little. 

 The .Xeiiion Journal," referring to the American Watch 

 Co. at Waltham reported: "The hands employed 

 in the caseroom and the machinists have been called 

 in. All the works are to be started the first of 

 .September." 



The New Sponsor 



William Bentley Fowle (fig. 10), new partner with 

 Hopkins and Colt in the watch, w-as born in Boston, 

 Massachusetts on July 27, 1826. His father, William 

 B. Fowle, Senior, a well-known Boston teacher and 



'' .•\ugust 26, 1876, p. 2., under the heading of Waltham 

 Items, '.Signs of a revival of business at the Watch Works in 

 Waltham." 



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Figure 1 1 . — The Two Lever Escvpements Used in the .■\uburndale Rot.ary. Note, 

 in addition to the escapement, the absence of banking pins and the metal balance jewel in the 

 escapement at the left, which is from watch No. 176. (Both watches in the author's collection.) 



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