Not far from the city of Chicago is the town of Peru which was home to Westclocks manufacturing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westclox For your enjoyment, some pictures of a local collection on display of the variety of timepieces they made. Love the radium burn on the face of the 1941alarm clock. Many women died making these from cancers of the head and neck stemming from the use of radium and their putting their paint brushes in their mouths to keep the point sharp when putting lume on the hands and markers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls Edit: US radium was involved in the lawsuit. Not Westclox. I’d need to research that possibly further. Just something that I found interesting. Enjoy. I am certain there are some pocket watches and wrist watches out there on the forum.
My first watch was a Westclox Pocket Dax which I was given in 1946. The price then was $4.75. Boyproof? I took mine apart, in class, in grade 1. Didn’t Westclox also have a factory in Lasalle, Indiana?
Bit of more color..... its pronounced Pey-RU ...by the locals. Lovely river town near a magnificent park.
I live a bit south of Peru and have never been there. Guess I’ll have to change that. I’d also like to add these two watches I picked up 20+ years ago. Don’t know much about them except they’re fitted with Val. 7733 movements I’ve got several clocks, working and not, I’ll try to get posted soon.
Here’s a few more I gathered together The one on the far left is a Chinese reproduction (quartz), but all the rest were made in LaSalle, Illinois.