![]() ![]() ![]() There were over 400 runs of the Model 1883 alone with this marking. ![]() Bartlett” than any other single indication of grade. The author has no concrete proof but feels that more American watch movements were marked “P.S. Bartlett” on movement for many, many years, even through the time Bartlett worked for Elgin and well past his death in 1902. Waltham will continue to use the name “P.S. He eventually wound up working for Waltham again as a salesman and then ran his own wholesale business.Ībbott tells us that some of the early Waltham movements were engraved “P.S. Bartlett left Waltham to assist in the organization of the National Watch Company at Elgin Illinois. Abbot’s “History of the Watch Factories of America" we learn that Bartlett’s family was one of the oldest and most famous puritan families in Massachusetts and that his great uncle, Josiah Bartlett was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. One of the early employees of the Boston Watch Company, a precursor to the Waltham Company, was a man named Patten Sargeant Bartlett. ![]()
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