Brand Spirit; Ball's Time - Ball RR2101 Mode D'emploi

2. Brand Spirit

Freedom represents what humans live for: Free will and the chance to
pursue their dreams.
The American Railroads brought freedom to the country, the opportunity to
travel and explore the new frontiers. The powerful locomotives sparked the
spirit of adventure in the American people, while the men of the railroads
were the heroes of the machine age. Then BALL Watch Company proudly
served the men of the railroads, just as we support the world-class explorers
of today.
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3. BALL'S TIME

Webb C. Ball was born in Fredericktown, Ohio
on October 6, 1847. In the early years, Mr. Ball
was recognized as having an interest in accurate
time. When Standard Time was adopted in 1883,
Mr. Ball was the first Cleveland jeweler to use
the time signals sent from the Naval Observatory
in Washington D.C., bringing accurate time to
Cleveland. For many years, as people walked
past his store, they would pull out their watches
and set the time. The phrase, "BALL'S TIME",
came to mean the absolute correct time all over
Northern Ohio.
Webb C. Ball was instrumental in establishing watch standards and the
inspection system that required all watches and clocks used on the railroads
to be checked by competent watchmakers. It is important to recognize and
applaud Webb C. Ball for inventing the first successful system to be accepted
on a broad scale. It was his system that set the standards for the railroads; it
was his system that helped establish accuracy and uniformity in timekeeping.
It was his system that resulted in railroad time and railroad watches being
recognized as STANDARD, whenever accuracy in time was required.
Webster Clay Ball, founder
of BALL Watch Company
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