The Fredonia Watch Company was a short-lived American watch manufacturer founded in 1883 in Fredonia, New York, during a period when many U.S. towns sought to establish local watch factories to rival established makers like Waltham and Elgin. The firm produced affordable pocket watches, often with movements imported from Switzerland and finished in America, but struggled to compete with larger, better-financed companies. By 1886, the operation was sold and relocated to Peoria, Illinois, eventually becoming part of the ill-fated Peoria Watch Company.
Today, surviving Fredonia watches are relatively rare and valued by collectors as an example of America’s ambitious but often turbulent watchmaking ventures of the late 19th century.