AMERICAN WATCH COMPANY

Grade: William Ellery movement:

Key wind movement serial number 772615 is a 10-size, model 1865, grade WM Ellery,
7-jewel, open-face movement, built in about 1874. This movement was of average quality with a total production of 3,340. The case is 18 Karat gold probably made at the American watch factory in Waltham Mass. More American Watch Company history.
The watch belonged to Bessi Tyler Reynolds wife of the Hon J. F. Reynolds, attorney at law, of Carbondale PA. She was the great Grandmother of J.S.V. The watch was serviced and given to me by Janice Vilett of Short Hills N.J., my Grandmother.