Joseph Bulova was born in the Czech Republic and immigrated to New York City in 1870. In 1875, at the age of 23, he established a small shop named J. Bulova Company in Lower Manhattan, now known as ...

The double-sided pocket watch had a map of the heavens on one of its two dials, an intricate display whose complexity nodded to the mechanical masterpiece ticking within the solid-gold case. It told ...