{"id":1552,"date":"2018-06-19T13:31:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T13:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:09:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:09:28","slug":"today-national-watch-day-there-was-once-a-croton-watch-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1552","title":{"rendered":"Today: National Watch Day &#8211; there was once a Croton Watch Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#39;s right &#8211; and they still exist, over in West Nyack&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crotonwatch.com\/\"> Croton Watch Co. Inc.<\/a> Nice website!<\/p>\n<p>Go here for an index of croton blogspot posts about the company&#0160; -https:\/\/everythingcroton.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/an-index-to-croton-watch-company-series.html<\/p>\n<p>And here is (I believe) a picture of one of their vintage watches.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad35469bc200c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Croton watch 2\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad35469bc200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad35469bc200c-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px;\" title=\"Croton watch 2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#39;s right &#8211; and they still exist, over in West Nyack&#0160; Croton Watch Co. Inc. Nice website! Go here for an index of croton blogspot posts about the company&#0160; -https:\/\/everythingcroton.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/an-index-to-croton-watch-company-series.html And here is (I believe) a picture of one of their vintage watches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7753,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions\/7753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}