GILBERT – SPY WATCH

American A.C. Gilbert Company James Bond “Spy Watch 007” Very Unusual White Cardboard Display And Comes With Original Gilbert Batman Watch Print On The Backside. The Common Gilbert James Bond Spy Watch 007 Edition Is Displayed On A Red Cardboard. I Can Imagine Gilbert Didn’t Have Enough 007 Cardboard Displays And Stamped The Back Of The Batman Display With James Bond Spy Watch. Very ‘Exotic’ Release.

The Watch Itself Is Original With Secret Sighting Lenses And World Time Guide. Plastic And Metal Front Plate Spy Watch (Approximate 60 x 40mm) The Manual Winding Swiss Movement Is Keeping Time. The Spy Scope, It Can Pull Up From Both Sides. Direct Read Digital Time Display And Turning World Time Bezel. Different Models Were Produced, The Date Display Is To Find In different Positions On The Dial.

The A.C. Gilbert Company Was An American Toy Company, Once One Of The Largest Toy Companies In The World. It Is Best Known For Introducing The Erector Set (A Construction Toy Similar To Meccano In The Rest Of The World) To The Marketplace

First known As The Mysto Manufacturing Company, The Company Was Founded In 1909 In Westville, Connecticut, By Alfred Carlton Gilbert, A Magician, And His Friend John Petrie. The Company Was Originally Established To Provide Supplies For Magic Shows. Their Magician’s Sets, Known As “Mysto Magic”, Were Marketed From The Teens Until The Fifties. In 1916, The Name Of The Company Was Changed From the Mysto Manufacturing Company To The A.C. Gilbert Company

Gilbert Was The Largest Employer In New Haven From The Early 1930s To The Late 1950s, Employing More Than 5000 In Three Shifts At Its Sound Street Manufacturing Facility. The Gilbert Company Struggled After The Death Of Its Founder In 1961. Gilbert’s Family Sold Its Shares, Pantents Pending For The Production In Hong Kong, Japan And Portugal. The Company Was Never Profitable Under Its New Ownership. By 1967, Gilbert Was Out Of Business
A.C. Gilbert Company, USA 1965

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Categories: Clocks/Watches, Goodies, Goodies 1960s, Memorabilia, Toys, Toys 1960s