![]() In 1925, John Dueber sold the company to Walter Vrettman. In 1923, the two businesses merged to become the Dueber-Hampden Watch Company. īy 1890, the company was producing quality watches, and introduced the first size 16, 23 jewel movement made in America. Finally, in 1877, the company reopened, now doing business as the Hampden Watch Company. Three years later, the company's factory burnt to the ground. Unfortunately for Mozart, this company soon failed, but in 1867, he reorganized the firm as the New York Watch Company, with production facilities in Springfield, Massachusetts. Mozart founded the company in Providence, Rhode Island. The Hampden Watch Company was originally known as the Mozart Watch Company. ![]() Then in 1930 the factory was sold and moved to Soviet Russia. Pocket watch sales declined after World War I, and the business closed in 1927. Dueber moved them both to Canton, Ohio, where Hampden used the Dueber cases until the companies merged in 1923. In 1888 the Dueber Watch Case Company operating in Cincinnati from 1864 bought the Hampden Watch Company of New York, in operation since 1877. The Dueber-Hampden Watch Company was an American watch manufacturing company. ![]() American pocket watch manufacturer (1888–1927)
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