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Timex watches are up there with the Ford Mustang and Budweiser beer as quintessentially American products. Even folks outside the watch world are familiar with the once-popular slogan "Takes a licking and keeps on ticking." The company is based in Middlebury, CT, and they've been around the area since 1854. In a way, they've transcended the typical role of a watch manufacturer and become a small slice of American culture. Bill Clinton was known to wear a Timex Ironman while holding office, for example.
But they haven't produced any watches on American soil since well before the era of the quartz crisis in the 1970s. Globalization and market forces pushed (or rather, pulled) manufacturing overseas for many companies during that time. In 2019, Timex is getting involved in domestic production once again with a model that's assembled in the U.S. from mostly domestically-made parts. The quartz movement is the only exception, and that comes from Switzerland.
The article isn't clear if all production will be brought back to America, or if this is for a limited series.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @06:21PM
One of the old mechanical wind-up jobs, the only place it ever kept reasonable time was within a couple of miles of the city of it's 'birth', that was Dundee, Scotland.
(Someone actually stole it from my desk when I worked down in London..thieves eh?, who can tell what goes through their twisty minds when their dark deeds they perform? even when new, it was nearly worthless, and the goldish plating had mostly worn off the thing over the decades..)