Paul Cornell founded Cornell Watch Company in 1870, a direct descendant of other great American watchmakers like Newark Watch Company and Boston Watch Company. There's even a tie-in with IWC, as one of IWC's co-founders came all the way to
link Chicago from Schaffhausen to
link help a struggling Cornell. Sadly, it didn't work – the combination of the Great Chicago
link Fire and a financial crisis quickly shuttered Cornell by the mid-1870s.