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Articles \ "Death of D.A.A. Buck, Inventor of the Waterbury Watch." The Jeweler’s Circular – Weekly. April 13th, 1904
“Death of D. A. A. Buck, Inventor of the Waterbury Watch. Medina, NY. - April 7th – D. A. A. Buck, inventor of the Waterbury watch, died at his home here to-day, at the age of 67 years. At the time of his death Mr. Buck was at the head of the Medina Mfg. Co., the concern that handled his many recent inventions, although his patent on the Waterbury watch was sold to an eastern company years ago. The first Waterbury watch made by the hands of Mr. Buck was shown to Charles Benedict, Jan 9th, 1878. Mr. Benedict furnished $10,000 capital to form a company for the purpose of manufacturing the watch. The first ones were made in a little room over the office of the Benedict and Burnham Mfg. Co. Two years later the business had grown sufficiently to begin a home of its own, and the Waterbury Watch Co. was organized with a capital of $400,000. Its organized shareholders were the Benedict and Burnham Mfg. Co, with Charles Benedict, Gordon Burham, and Charles Dickerson as trustees; Charles Benedict, George Merritt, Edward Locke and the deceased. The factory was built and its wheels started running May, 1881. This building now comprises part of the home of the New England Watch Co. The deceased came to his end after a prolonged illness of heart disease. He left a widow and three sons. |