American and Swiss Watchmaking in 1876
Author | : Jacques David |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Clock and watch making |
ISBN | : 9780958136921 |
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Author | : Jacques David |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Clock and watch making |
ISBN | : 9780958136921 |
Author | : James Craig Watson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Clocks and watches |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alun C. Davies |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2022-04-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000571904 |
This survey of the rise and decline of English watchmaking fills a gap in the historiography of British industry. Clerkenwell in London was supplied with 'rough movements' from Prescot, 200 miles away in Lancashire. Smaller watchmaking hubs later emerged in Coventry, Liverpool, and Birmingham. The English industry led European watchmaking in the late eighteenth century in output, and its lucrative export markets extended to the Ottoman Empire and China. It also made marine chronometers, the most complex of hand-crafted pre-industrial mechanisms, crucially important to the later hegemony of Britain’s navy and merchant marine. Although Britain was the 'workshop of the world', its watchmaking industry declined. Why? First, because cheap Swiss watches were smuggled into British markets. Later, in the era of Free Trade, they were joined by machine-made watches from factories in America, enabled by the successful application to watch production of the 'American system' in Waltham, Massachusetts after 1858. The Swiss watch industry adapted itself appropriately, expanded, and reasserted its lead in the world’s markets. English watchmaking did not: its trajectory foreshadowed and was later followed by other once-prominent British industries. Clerkenwell retained its pre-industrial production methods. Other modernization attempts in Britain had limited success or failed.
Author | : United States. Consuls |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 622 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Consular reports |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Frank Jacob |
Publisher | : Vernon Press |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2021-09-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1648893090 |
This book recounts the story of Florentine Ariosto Jones, who after the Civil War decided to manufacture watches. Combining the cheap labor available at the time in Switzerland with US manufacturing technologies, Jones embarked on his venture to produce affordable watches for the American market. Consequently, he became a pioneer in the business of outsourcing labor for economic purposes through his contracting of labor to Europe. While the company still exists today, very little is known about Jones. The present book will undoubtedly change this by telling the fascinating story of an American adventurer and his pursuit to globalize American watchmaking at the end of the 19th Century.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Consular reports |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Pierre-Yves Donzé |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Clock and watch making |
ISBN | : 9783034316453 |
This book tackles the history of the Swiss watch industry in a global perspective: it gives particular attention to rival nations such as the United Kingdom, the USA and Japan. The author demonstrates how Swiss watchmakers succeeded in facing various challenges: the industrialization of production at the end of the 19th century, the delocalization of production in the interwar years and globalization since the 1960's. These challenges helped Switzerland to maintain and strengthen its position as a leader on the world market. This study shows how innovation and new technologies, the industrial policy of the Swiss authorities, the industrial district organization and the relations with trade unions explain the worldwide success of the Swiss watch industry.
Author | : United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Consular reports |
ISBN | : |
Author | : R. James Breiding |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 764 |
Release | : 2013-01-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1847658091 |
Why has Switzerland - a tiny, land-locked country with few natural advantages - become so successful for so long at so many things? In banking, pharmaceuticals, machinery, even textiles, Swiss companies rank alongside the biggest and most powerful global competitors. How did they get there? How do they continue to refresh themselves? Does the Swiss 'Sonderfall' (special case) provide lessons others can learn and benefit from? Can the Swiss continue to perform in a hyper-competitive global economy? Swiss Made offers answers to these and many other questions about the country as it describes the origins, structures and characteristics of the most important Swiss companies. The authors suggest success is due to a large degree to sound entrepreneurial thinking and an openness to new ideas. And they venture a surprising forecast on the country's ability to keep pace in an age of globalisation.
Author | : United States. Bureau of Manufactures |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Consular reports |
ISBN | : |