Timex American Documents “Made In America” Watches: The Journey To Rediscover United States Craftsmanship

A new chapter opens with the Timex American Documents collection, a novel type of wristwatch family that heralds a return to the lost art of manufacturing most of the product in the USA Proudly stating "Made In America" on the dial, American Documents is one of the most important and ambitious projects undertaken by Timex in years Timex American Documents starts with a collection of four timepieces whose story merits the attention of any timepiece enthusiast.

Timex set itself the challenge to build upon that legacy by creating a new line of watches that supported and enjoyed all the benefits of American manufacturing, while staying true to Timex's core values of affordable, highly competitive pricing, timeless, versatile, and elegant designs, and a consequently strong value proposition Equipped with a Swiss quartz movement, every other component, including the case, dial, hands, and even the wooden presentation boxes in the Timex American Documents watch collection are produced in the U.S In fact, all parts are produced near the company's headquarters by specialized component manufacturers in Connecticut.

To conceive, design, and engineer a watch that can be produced entirely in America, by suppliers tooled up for comparably intricate but very different tasks, required Timex to develop a new approach for the entire process, with the easy-to-understand exception of the movement, which, in the Timex American Documents watch collection, is Swiss-made The cases - precision-machined, but not yet assembled - are transferred to a manufacturing company that is capable of giving the watch heads' external components the refined surface treatments that Timex has dreamt up for the American Documents collection They have taken on the challenge of hand-finishing the case and bezel of each and every American-made Timex American Documents watch, revealing the inherent beauty of these pieces after they have been precision-made by the manufacturer. Source