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Elgin was founded in 1864 by J.C. Adams, some former employees of the Walthem Watch Company, and 35 acres of land donated by the city of Elgin, Illinois. It was originally named the National Watch Company and was changed to the Elgin National Watch Company in 1874. Their first watch, the 18-sized BW Raymond, was [...]

The Hamilton Watch Company was founded in 1892 with the purchase of the bankrupt Keystone Standard Watch Company in Lancasterr, Pennsylvania. Expanding into Switzerland Hamilton purchased the Buren Watch Company in 1966, soon after Hamilton began using the Buren Microtor in their higher end watches. In 1969 all Hamilton watches were manufactured by Buren in [...]