This '70s 25 jewel Ball "Trainmaster" was if not the last, certainly the best of the last mechanical American railroad watches. It has an ETA movement so it is not really American but it is the last gasp of one of the most important American watch companies. I guess the Swiss movement is appropriate since, important as it was, The Ball Watch Company of Cleveland, OH never really manufactured any watches. They were very Swiss like in that they simply ordered watches with the Ball name on them from various other watch companies, finished them, cased them and sold them through Ball agents all over the US. The Ball name has been resurrected in a new line of big tool looking watches...It will be interesting to see if they can make a go of it.

JohnCote