![]() The reason for the quotation marks is that the term "finish" in the watch industry usually refers to the process of turning a set of raw movement parts into a smoothly functioning movement, as well as adding whatever decorating that was to be done. ![]() However, it may be that the "finishing" may have simply meant mounting a dial and placing the movement in a case. Its said that Keystone "finished" these watches at the New York Standard Watch Co., a firm, based in New Jersey, already owned by Keystone. ![]() Howard name by the American Waltham Watch Co., which Keystone-Howard then marketed. At first, the firm had watches built under the E. Howard Watch & Clock Co.) sometime around 1903, reportedly to provide a market for their better grades of cases. purchased the rights to use the Howard name on watches (Note: from the E. The following information is mostly based upon "The Howard Ten Size Watch," Arthur N.
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