The evolution of design in the Skagen Denmark watch collections has come to its pinnacle with the Black Label Collection. One drawback to the American System of Manufacturing is that each part required a machine to make it, so complicated watches such as minute repeaters, chronographs and very high end watches were not practical to make.
Sometimes American companies would “cheat” and simply make these watches with semi-automated means similar to the Swiss, but the quantity was limited and by the 1890s, most American watch companies had stopped making them.
A new Swiss company could enter the market fairly easily, but the American “watch trust” made distributors and Jewelers leery of accepting a new brand of watch and risk loosing their supply of Elgins and Walthams.
I have a wonderful article from Elgin whining to congress about how there “needs to be a parity of price at the borders” and “We need a tariff on Swiss watches and a subsidized export market.” And to think, Elgin was in much better shape than most.
The attack was front-page news in Indian newspapers and happened three months after the fatal gang rape of a woman aboard a New Delhi bus, an attack that spurred outrage over the treatment of women in Indian society and the country’s justice system.