In 2013, Joseph Fahys & Co began developing a luxury American-made smartwatch with a patent-pending kinetically charged battery.

[citation needed] During this time, the company not only manufactured watch cases but was also the biggest producer of silverware in the United States.

Fahys used his influence and success to found the Jewellers Board of Trade in 1884, and was the first president of the Watchcase Manufacturers Association.

[citation needed] Fahys employed a high number of Hungarian, Polish, and Italian workers, many of whom were expert engravers.

[7] Under growing financial strain Fahys sold the Sag Harbor plant to Joseph Bulova, an Austrian watchmaker who continued to produce watch cases in the factory until 1975.

They would be constructed of brick and granite trim, have stone floor and roofs of tin, making them absolutely fireproof.

Wilfrid Sheed in ‘Sag Harbor Is: A Literary Celebration’ [8] said that the building was “one of those epic anomalies that help to define a landscape by clashing with it.

Bulova operated the factory until 1975, when the plant was closed due to increased overseas competition and a changing marketplace.

In 1896 the Fahys building[11] at 54 Maiden Lane, running through to Liberty Street, was built and the offices and showrooms were relocated there.

[3] At the height of production during the First World War, Joseph Fahys & Co. also produced a series of silver trench watch cases that housed Marvin A. Cattin and Imperial Branded movements.