Show yankee watch manufacture at t waltham missal kyl khi A r ills liis h i a ita t 5 on n the so w i h bl b oi of chai chit 1 s I 1 i er and toi tei euils brilin frari bos hos B is to i deeon ron roh ion howard and davis have aill in operation opel the only wath watch manufactory on this si side ie of the atlantic the proprietors have been five or six years 5 ears ir t s f ia sl tl i SF ti tr i I 1 il ili ir r bt a f s fil s t I 1 i a R ab i iid 11 ih th 11 i f ii lr i pr present sent 1 I sa as d dosty dusty laev aid aad mon aix e q i ty tl 1 I and in n that 1 bli bil abner f time have sic s ceded ili in rig machinery and educating burc tu to sach bach a degree as to make daily ten or a doen dozed ele eie elegant ant and excellent watches matches morth worth in silver cases ca ses sea from t rv to fib iolar each hi i pu gu cas cag cas 3 I 1 arlu n b I 1 ilat blat 11 at a u lill i they chiy employ em iov lev al a seventy bev eny give five hands hards arst v 3 0 doting ing men ar aad aid d eung oung ui women but bilt their sto sno eat hard hand is is a attain engine nominally 12 hil hii hf if tower rower power each lach ot of these seventy severity hive five pairs tf f fiands I 1 ands has hag its own work to do and by bv be bein in ex upon one thing for avral years liase flave have acquired act und a skia kij ish ch woul wn 1 I 1 seem mir miraculous to tile the novice the buil bui ln dil is 13 divided into 1 i n t 0 many small apartments aal an t at ih tha time of 0 our u r isit visit in each apartment serne seine s aue ine d part ot of the watch was in ii i i hand the mole moie aole force of the establishment is now turbid turi d upon the manufacture of thirty hour watches es in hunters casee but we sawa beautiful specimen of an eight day watch which had been manufactured there in the first apartment which we entered the principal prin cipal brass braas plates platea in the watch were prepared for receiving the works tha the accuracy with which these plates were made was proved to ua us by taking a set of them at rando random in and petg aag fig them together they hit fit bitted fitted ted with perfect accuracy acce acca racy as though the members of that particular set had bad been made specially for each other yet each riece piece piece would git fit equally well in any other set in n other rooms we saw the cases going through their various processes the metal was tolled into plates cut into shapes stamped into concave form rough polished pickled picc pice ed in acid the parts soldered solder erd rid together toge thir and newly polished with finer material the whole pit together and then subjected to successive until an exquisite luster was obtained we also saw the marvelous little machine by which the baci back of the case is adorned with its singular engra engraving Nirl gf wherein the lines that are seen were not engraved and the lines that were engraved are not seen except by the initiated A series of concentric waving circles appear for exar example aple apte like a series of inter interesting efting curves radiating from a center but with watches as with men the external externals areef are of little importance compared with the in we beut wen therefore there foie fole to another part of the building wilding to seb set the operation of manufacturing fac turing the digestive apparatus by which the tile daily dally food of muscular pov power er communicated through the watch ley key is elaborated elaborate dinto into available form by b y which h tho the t ho will in I 1 n shape of a main spring under the guid guld guidance ance of judgment in shape of an escapement may way moye move the hands ands to useful purpose here we saw the singularly ribbed pinions cut into proper lengths il turned u arned to proper llam liam diameters in their various parts the leaves re cut cu and the whole anion i n pass through successive polish ol 01 ings until the e microscope could detect no lack ack of lustre il in another part of the room brass brasa wheels were stamped out without teeth the teeth cut by an engine the wheel wheal with it its teeth carefully pol poi polished shed and then b by a neat and effective machine the wheel abd aad pinion united forever the hands mada mads of silver or gold are formed by a series of punches which leaves nothing to ba be done by other 0 her hands but the mem mere polishing the little liftee screws used in in fastening the parts together were made by beautiful awl delicate machines the perfect on of 0 human ingenuity and skill after a 4 glance at the springs and the moda mods in in which they are braced tn prevent breaking while white the watch is asui in use we went vent through the f ene ere engraving ravi il roomi room where the brass plates of the watch aae are are ornamented by the gravers tool thence we passed to the jewelers jewel ws roomy rooms room where garnets sapphires sapp hires are thea thel the materials arid and diamonds the toos tools stepping a little further we were shown the watches without cases and therasa the brass rass platea plates not yet et gilt adt real watches going and keep ili ino ina tile tiie further on wa we saw siw watches with all ali a h he tiie plates spica spi lendi lendl i liy liv Ily gygi gilt wt tait not 5 yet et clothed wilh with a case finally we were shown the watch dressed in silver and gold and rea rca ly I 1 tc t 0 start on its is mission in in the world wai wal t 11 mas sentinel |