In the general discussion below, the different companies will be collectively referred to as the Ball Watch Co., or simply as Ball. Also, there was one branch of Ball operations in Winnipeg the Canadian Ball Watch Company, Ltd. Nevertheless, Jeffrey Hess, CEO of Ball Watch USA, has described a portion of it in a 1-May-09 NAWCC Message Board Post. There have been such a number of Ball companies, under different names, sometimes functioning simultaneously, that (by Ball's design) it is very difficult to follow their evolution.
A succession of Ball firms, eventually funded by Rockefeller capital, marketed Railroad Grade Watches (the last being Wrist Watches), and other, non-railroad, watches over a period of about seventy to eighty years.
Ball had been involved in the American watch business by the beginning of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, but it wasn't until the early-1890s that the first of the Ball watch companies appeared.
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