6/11/2023 0 Comments Illinois watch old![]() He became such an expert on the subject that in 2004 he released The Illinois Watch: The Life and Times of a Great Watch Company. ![]() “I had a brand and I would beat the bushes to find them,” he says. After doing this for several months, I realized that I had a pile of garbage, so I said I had to have a better plan.”įriedberg bought some wristwatch price guides and soon became enamored of Illinois watches. “In the beginning I had no idea what I was looking for I just wanted old watches. ![]() Intrigued, he began buying watches whenever he happened upon one. In his mid-40s, Friedberg, now 77, stumbled into a vintage watch store on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington. “As a kid I admired watches that my dad and uncles and grandfather wore.” “I liked vintage watches even before they were vintage,” he says. In 2018, he released The Illinois Watch and Its Hamilton Years, a definitive five-volume, 1,648-page history of the company, which made art deco wristwatches from 1928–1933.Īt its peak, Friedberg’s collection of Illinois watches numbered around 700. What started when he bought his first vintage one more than 30 years ago grew into what he now admits is a full-blown obsession.įriedberg literally wrote the book on timepieces produced by the long defunct Illinois Watch Company. For Fred Friedberg, watches are more than just a matter of time.
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