Marion - A History of The United States Watch Companyis the definitive work on the United States Watch Company of Marion, New Jersey. Yet it is not just a story of a watch company. Few books in horology read like a Victorian melodrama, as does this. There are a tragic hero, his devoted wife, and an attendant cast of relatives. There are dreams, hopes, industry, success, grand plans, and ultimate disaster. And yes, there is a villain, a magnificent villain with style and vision.
It is also a perspective on the American watch industry in the turbulent years after the Civil War. It displays a piece of American society in the middle years of the nineteenth century. This is a picture of our heritage, framed with the technology of watchmaking by gifted authors William Muir & Bernard Kraus.
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