ANTIQUE WATERBURY MANTLE OAK GINGERBREAD CLOCK

ANTIQUE WATERBURY MANTLE OAK GINGERBREAD CLOCK

Antique Waterbury Clock in good looking and working conditions.

RARE ANTIQUE WATERBURY MANTLE OAK GINGERBREAD CLOCK

Formed March 5, 1857, as a joint stock corporation, the Waterbury Clock Company from its inception was an operation designed to be a major user of brass produced by the parent firm, the Benedict & Burnham Manufacturing Company. Utilizing the best talent available to them, they hired veteran clockmaker Chauncey Jerome to set up the new firm’s casemaking shop and his brother Noble Jerome, a well-known clock mechanic, to set up the movement manufacturing operation.

Though this firm became a major clock producer, after 1890 they became a major manufacturer of non-jeweled pocket watches, supplying R. H. Ingersoll & Brother, a major mail order firm. Large-scale production and profitability were enjoyed for more than two decades with this association. Major factory expansions between 1900 and 1915 made this the largest clock manufacturing facility in America.