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The United States (US) as a whole is one of the major centers of fashion development. Just as the US is the world power in terms of currency and governance, the nation and in fact America as a whole has a lot to offer in the development of the fashion watches. Here are the basic historical facts The fashion watch production in US has its historical antecedents from the activities of early European watchmakers who brought their skills and mechanical ingenuity to the two continents of America; the north and the South. Some of these Europeans that arrived were already doing well in the great Swiss nation. Before the introduction of the fashion watches, gigantic timepieces known as public clocks were displayed in major cities such as Boston in 1650 as major time regulator for many people. So it was in the New York City and others where Wall Street clocks were displayed for the public. The fashion watches were not produced in significant volumes as some of the available ones were imported from Europe through the help of those European watch makers that decided to establish branches in America. Later, in 1800, the wind changed. A great innovator namely Thomas Harland of Norwich, Connecticut, founded a factory where watches were produced. Subsequently others watch giants who have been in the offing as a result of the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution began to rise up their wonderful heads. Hence in the year 1836, the Pitkin Brothers of East Hartford Connecticut produced the first American-designed watch. In all, the above marked the arrival of so many other watch firms as the American continent developed. Later people like Jacob Arabo the American watch guru came up with the Jacob watch brand.