1920 s POCKET WATCH / TRAVEL CLOCK (Los Angeles, CA)

1920 s POCKET WATCH / TRAVEL CLOCK

Identical Concord Watch Company items were also sold with the TIFFANY & Co. name brand. Concord Watch Company was founded in 1908 in Biel Switzerland and was the 1st private labeled luxury watches to incorporate precious metals and gems in their watches. After World War 1 Concord watches became famous for not only being amazing timepieces but for incredible works of art with their jeweled platinum watches decorated by diamonds rubies emeralds and sapphires. In 1945 U.S. President Harry Truman presents Concord Clocks to Churchill and Stalin as a token of Potsdam peace conference. They were also recognized as the 1st brand to design a wristwatch made of coins in 1946. They are renown worldwide for pioneering the world s thinnest watch. 1969 saw the purchase of Concord Watch Company by the Movado Group of New York. The Concord brand then saw the start of an era when many Concord watch lines were introduced. --------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- ...