Your favourite film about watches? "The House of Wonders"
Mine's "The House of Wonders" showing complete production of an Elgin watch from 1931. An amazing survival. Silent with a new original piano score by pianist and Film historian Ben Model.
They even had an on-site observatory (now a planetarium and museum) to take the correct time from the stars and a shortwave radio station W9XAM to broadcast it!
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Gotta be this one
http://www.thewatchmakersapprentice.com/about/
Not seen the one you're referring to, but looks excellent & I'll enjoy watching it.
Thank you 👍👍
Love this, thanks for posting
Gotta be this one
http://www.thewatchmakersapprentice.com/about/
Not seen the one you're referring to, but looks excellent & I'll enjoy watching it.
Thank you 👍👍
Great suggestion. Thank you!
https://youtu.be/kWp6hZ-5ndc?si=rtU90SaHCk5DaacY
https://youtu.be/kWp6hZ-5ndc?si=rtU90SaHCk5DaacY
An all-time classic. Watches were smaller back then, but not that much smaller...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RxnIriKLRk&pp=ygURcmFkaXVtIGdpcmxzIDIwMTg%3D
Great recommendation. I knew the absolutely heartbreaking story but not that there was a movie about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krss_MczGKE&pp=ygUaZHVuZGVlIHdhdGNoZXMgZG9jdW1lbnRhcnk%3D
Another great suggestion, thank you. I remember watching this when I was getting into vintage Timex Electronics and looking for someone who could service them - it turned out there was someone who could do it who used to work at the Dundee factory.
Really hard-hitting stuff. It's an appropriate counterpoint to the film I posted which shows the good times at Elgin.
Elgin eventually suffered a similar fate, first moving the factory from Illinois to Florida, presumably for cheaper, non-unionised labour and then went bust anyway. The brand was sold and used by various generic manufacturers before disappearing into obscurity.