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In fact, improving watches from outside lands, generally for reliability’s sake, seemed to be the Russian watch industry’s modus operandi, sometimes in an apparently illicit capacity. For example, the Russian government set up a contract with French watchmaker Lip in the 1930s to collaborate on movement production - it lasted all the way until the 1950s, resulting in many high-end movements that Soviet watchmakers ended up improving on. Many were based on old Dueber-Hampden pocket watch designs, but the Russians eventually collaborated with watch companies abroad to further their development. Within the next decade, Russia was producing hundreds of thousands of watches. In either case, watches were not an of the people kind of good. Up to this point, watches in were in short supply in Russia and were either imported or cobbled together in small workshops from Swiss-made movements and parts. clockmaker) - would help form the basis of the First State Watch Factory, and subsequently the beginnings of the entire Russian watch industry, which would become one of the most successful in the world. This equipment and the know-how of these employees - along with additional gear from Ansonia Clock Company (another failed U.S. Their destination, along with 21 former Dueber-Hampden employees? Moscow. In 1930, Dueber-Hampden’s tooling and equipment were loaded into boxcars. But according to some historians, the operation was using outdated technology while other watchmaking outfits in the U.S. Slow sales and the tumultuous financial state of the world no doubt played a factor. Not long after the Stock Market crash of 1929, Dueber-Hampden, a watchmaker based in Canton, Ohio, went bankrupt.