Warranted To Wear Permanently (stamped in cap)ġ4K Gold-Filled, no time limit on warranty, or Permanent, introduced about February 1901, by 1904: stamped "Fahys" w/ Caduceus trade mark in back.ġ4K Gold-Filled, guaranteed for 25 years, introduced in July 1897, by 1904: stamped "Fahys" w/ Caduceus trade mark in back.ġ4K Gold-Filled, guaranteed for 25 years. Novemad, Pg 47 - 14 F K, 16-Size, 6 more designs.įahys' case designs may also be seen on pages 327 - 354 (although not on all of the pages) of the 1897 Lapp & Flershem Twenty-first Annual Illustrated Catalogue. Novemad, Pg 46 - 14 F K, 16-Size, 6 designs. Jad - Ships of the Spanish - American War.Īugad - 14 F K, Gadroon border 9 designs. Novemad - Montauk 15-year screw cases, 6 designs.Īpad - Montauk 20-year cases, 10 designs. Jad - 14 F K 25-year gold-filled cases, 10 designs. Maad - The wheelman's watch - for bicyclists.Īd - Montauk 15-year screw cases, 5 designs. However, its not clear if by this time the company was just furnishing the cases (and bands) or if it was also bundling these with movements and marketing complete watches.Īpril, 1893 ad - Monarch Locomotive design.įebruad - Monarch 20-year cases, 6 designs.įebruad - Montauk 15-year cases, 6 designs.
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Another style was The Cambridge, while yet two more were The Boston and The Olympia.įahys was a full line supplier and as such, the company also produced bracelet watches. These utilized the Giles Anti-Magnetic Shield.įahys gave names to the shapes of some of its case styles. In the late 1880s, when the risk of watches becoming magnetized was a major consideration, Fahys came out with a line of magnetically shielded cases. This claim didn't seem to have been repeated and one wonders how quick and how big the customer response was. In an ad, Fahys stated " Fahys Monarch Screw Case - water won't hurt it." thus going out on quite a limb. The company secured such rights under the Fitch patent as needed, from Robbins & Appleton, to be able to offer both hunting and open-face screw cases. It seems that the No.1 mark was continued across a whole range of cases, so it may never have indicated a particular grade of goods.įahys' ads of the mid-1880s promoted their " Dust Proof" cases. At that time the trademark was used on coin silver cases.
1" in 1878 as part of a larger and more elaborate trade mark, just prior to purchasing the Fortanback case business. Michael Harrold had once reported on the message board that Fahys registered the " No. 1" specifically means when stamped on the inside of a Fahys case. However, documentation has yet to appear that indicates just what " No. 1" in addition to other identifying markings. Bulova made watch cases there until the plant was closed in 1980. leased part of the Fahys Sag Harbor factory building. Interestingly, according to the article " Fahys of Sag Harbor, New York, Part 1," in 1937 the Bulova Watch Co.
The company went out of business during the Great Depression. At sometime leading up to the turn of the century, ownership of Brooklyn passed to Fahys. Fahys brought the Brooklyn Watch Case Co. It is difficult to tell how actively involved he was, or was not, with the company. is listed (in ads) as the General Agent for the Brooklyn Watch Case Co., a manufacturer of solid gold cases, of which, Fahys was one of the original directors upon its inception in 1873. However, starting in the mid-1890s, Joseph Fahys & Co. Regardless of the factory being out on Long Island, Fahys' (and Brooklyn's - see below) main offices were in located in their own building in New York City.įahys seemed to have only made gold-filled, silver and Oresilver (nickel) cases from the late 1880's up to 1910 (the subject needs to be researched beyond that year). In 1882, operations moved to Sag Harbor, NY, which is a former whaling port on Long Island ( and where Fahys' wife was from).īy the end of the 1890s, Fahys had expanded its factory at the cost of $10,000 (a considerable amount of money at the time). In 1861 he built another factory in Carlstadt, NJ and ran it under the name of Foutenbach & Sons ( Or, the Fortenback case company in Carlstadt was organized and built entirely by the Fortenbach family, although Fahys may have been their distributor) until 1878 when it was re-named under Joseph Fahys. (which includes additional Notes in Brown by Michael Harrold): Joseph Fahys came to the United States in 1848 and opened a shop in New York City in 1857. The book History of the American Watch Case, has the following to say about Joseph Fahys & Co.
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