Aaron Lufkin Dennison

Aaron Lufkin Dennison ( born March 6, 1812 in Freeport, Maine, USA, † January 9, 1895 in Birmingham, England) was an American watchmaker and is considered the " father of American watchmaking ."

After three years of training with James Cary Dennison went in 1833 as a watchmaker to Boston. There he followed the advice of Tubal Hone, a fellow of the American watch manufacturing, and discovered inaccuracies in the manufacturing and construction of even the finest handmade clocks. He frequently visited the armory of Springfield, and predicted that the manufacture of watches would soon have the same precision level as the manufacture of weapons. Around the year 1840 he invented the Dennison Standard Gauge.

Together with the clockmaker Edward Howard went Dennison in 1849 a partnership to produce affordable watches with high quality. With the start-up capital of the mirror manufacturer Samuel Curtis began in 1850. In 1850 he was the first one the " Interchangeable System" ( interchangeable system or the American System of Watch Manufacturing) in the production of watches. In 1854 a new factory on the Charles River in Waltham, Massachusetts was built. The company was the famous Waltham Watch Company.

In his last years, Dennison moved to Europe where he continued his career in Switzerland and England.

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  • Reprint of The American Jeweler, February 1888, by Greg R. Mrs Hoff, January 2003
  • " Seventy-Five Years" Company edited booklet, Dennison Manufacturing Co, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
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