First Watch U. S. Presidents and Their Timepieces Watch. Time. As Americans celebrate Presidents Day, we felt it was the perfect time to re present this feature on U. List of USB IDs Maintained by Stephen J. Gowdy If you have any new entries, please submit them via http or send. Bill Le Boeuf Jewellers is committed to providing our customers with the best value and selection of time pieces, diamond and gemstone jewellery and platinum, white. Movado_Chronometre_Silver_Purs_as246a628z-3.jpg' alt='Movado Pocket Serial Number' title='Movado Pocket Serial Number' />S. Watch. Time archives December 2. Read it to find out what brands graced the wrists and waistcoasts of our chief executives, up to and including Barack Obama. In 1. 96. 2, the story goes, Marilyn Monroe gave John F. Kennedy a birthday gift a gold Rolex with the inscription Jack, With love as always, from Marilyn, May 2. The president was anything but grateful. Knowing that the watch would be seen as evidence of an intimate relationship with the actress, he gave it to an aide, Kenneth ODonnell, along with a note instructing him to get rid of it. In 2. 00. 5, the watch, the antique box containing it and a love poem Monroe had placed in the box sold at auction for 1. As many watch fans know, presidential history is loaded with horological tidbits like this. Now, as a new president takes the stage, Watch. Time reviews some of the more interesting lore about past presidents and their timepieces. When George Washington wanted a new watch in 1. Founding Father Gouverneur Morris, asking him to buy one for him in Paris. Morris, who would become U. S. minister to France three years later, was making a business trip there. Washington asked for a simple, gold watch of good quality, similar to the big, slender one that Thomas Jefferson had gotten for James Madison. He sent Morris 2. 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Morris then asked a merchant for yet another recommendation, and was given the name of a watchmaker named Gregson. He was no better than the first two. Finally, Morris hit paydirt. He went to Jean Antoine Lpine, watchmaker to King Louis XVI and one of the greatest watchmakers who ever lived. He bought from him two identical watches, one for Washington and one for himself. They were large, simple, keywound watches with virgule escapements. Washingtons was numbered 5,3. It remained in Washingtons family until 1. The watchs cuvette is engraved with the inscription Remontez droiteTournez les EquillesLepine Hger du RoyA Paris. George Washington above and his Lepine pocketwatch, front and back belowPhoto courtesy of NAWCCPhoto courtesy of NAWCCGeorge Washington owned another watch, one he gave to Colonel Thomas Johnson, the first governor of Maryland, elected in February 1. The watch does not have any visible marks identifying its maker, but it does have the symbol of the canton of Neuchtel, Switzerland. The watch bears the inscription, Trenton N. J. Dec. 1. 0th 1. Presented to my FriendCol. Thos. Johnson of Md. Mementoof my great EsteemGeo. Washington. Abraham Lincoln wore a Waltham watch, the same model worn by many Civil War soldiers. It was called the Wm. Ellery, named for a member of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence. The watch bears the serial number 6. The Ellery, which was inexpensive and sturdy, was extremely popular during the war. In 1. 86. 5, the year the war ended, nearly half the watches Waltham sold were Ellery models. Its interesting to note that Lincolns choice of an American made watch from a Union state, of course Waltham was based in Waltham, Massachusetts was not merely a matter of patriotism. The Civil War marked the beginning of an era in which American watch companies were the envy of the Swiss. Because American manufacturers had so effectively mastered mass production techniques, the watches they made were not only less expensive than those of the vaunted Swiss companies, they were more precise. Abraham Lincoln, a Waltham man. We dont know which watch Ulysses S. Grant wore, but we know he didnt wear it long. In 1. 85. 7, at age 3. St. Louis, he pawned the watch for 2. One of his biographers thinks he might have done so to buy Christmas presents for his wife and three children. Fourteen U. S. presidents have been Freemasons and at least one of them, Warren G. Harding, had a watch to prove it. He carried a so called Masonic watch, a particular type of watch in which Masonic symbols, such as an hourglass, a compass, and a masons square, were used as hour markers. Masonic watches there were both Masonic pocket watches and wristwatches had cases in the shape of another Masonic symbol, the equilateral triangle. These watches always incorporated a picture of the Masonic All Seeing Eye, or Eye of Providence. On the Harding watch, this eye is on the watchs caseback, along with a picture of King Solomons Temple. The watchcase is marked Hiram Watch Inc., 1. K, No. 1. 45. The movement is signed by Waltham. Hiram Watch Inc. was named for Hiram Abiff, the central figure in Masonic legend. He was the master mason who directed the building of Solomons Temple and who valiantly refused to reveal the secrets of advanced masonry to the three undeserving, novice masons who demanded them from him. The watch also bears the words Swiss HALLMARK1. Ser. 3. 36. 40. 74. Labelwriter Xl Plus Manual. Harding became a Mason in 1. Warren G. Harding above and his Masonic watch belowPhoto courtesy of NAWCCFranklin Delano Roosevelt wore a calendar wristwatch with the name Tiffany Co. Movado movement inside. He also owned a minute repeater pocket watch from the Geneva based A. Frankfeld company. The watch is elaborately engraved with FDRs initials. The lid bears the inscription Presented toPresident RooseveltbyDr. BoldanFormer Minister of Educationat Dinner ofLions Club of Havana onJanuary 3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt above and his Tiffany watch with Movado movement belowPhoto courtesy of NAWCCRight after World War II, when he was stationed in Germany, Dwight D. Eisenhower bought a steel Heuer chronograph wristwatch with 3. Heuer, a specialist in chronographs, was the precursor of todays TAG Heuer. Eisenhower also wore a Rolex Datejust. Some Rolex fans say the Rolex company in Geneva gave Eisenhower a second watch, a Day Date model, in honor of his re election in 1. Rolex launched the Day Date that year. According to them, the Day Date became known as the President because of the Eisenhower connection. Update this watch inspired the creation of a modern day mens collection from Tiffany, the Tiffany CT6. Vulcain ran advertisements incorporating a Saturday Evening Post photo of Eisenhower wearing a Cricket watch. Down to earth Harry S. Truman wasnt into fashion trends, except, apparently, when it came to watches. During the 2. 3 day Potsdam Conference convened in the summer of 1. Germany, Truman wore the most popular chronograph of the time, a Universal Genve Tri Compax. Universal Genve had introduced the watch the year before. The watch had so many admirers thanks in part to its very complicated, but elegant, styling. There were three chronograph subdials the source of the watchs name and a moonphase with calendar display at 1. Truman had a gold version of the watch. Truman also owned a Flying Officers Chronograph made by the Swiss firm Gallet. 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