Скачать или смотреть October 2023 NAWCC Atlanta Chapter 24 The Watch That Built an Empire; The Richard Warren Sears Story

On October 1, 2023, NAWCC Board and Atlanta Chapter 24 Member Sherry Kitts presented this Program to thirty-two Atlanta members in attendance and another four virtually.
In his late teens, Richard Warren Sears was a railroad telegrapher. He started selling railroad style watches up and down the line from Redwood Falls Minnisota around 1884. This became so lucrative that he left the railroad in 1886 and started a mail order business selling privately labeled pocket watches made in Illinois under the R.W. Sears Watch Company out of Minneapolis. He eventually moved his offices to Dearborn Street in downtown Chicago where he teamed with Alvah Curtis Roebuck. Sherry described several examples of their private label watches and discussed Sears' personality, his and his successor's growth strategies and results.