Most sources cite the company manufactured jewellery from the sixties to the seventies. However this is untrue. Exquisite jewellery was produced by the company called W A P Watson Ltd. At this juncture is the companies instance line:
1909 to 1914 - Walter Archibald Parker Watson had a small factory in Hockley mound, Birmingham manufacturing chains and at that moment gilt jewellery.
1914 W A P Watson sold his company to Augustus annoy Power and Clarence Oswald Flint. They set aside the label and subsequently became W A P Watson LTD
1914 to 1934 Following the First World War, Messrs Power and Flint became skilled in producing uniform jewellery. The novel run to of employees was 6 and it was in the course of this instance the range of jewellery was named Exquisite.
1934 The company with its 125 employees encouraged to Hampton Street in the Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter. They moreover had premises in Mary Street. Now not individual producing jewellery but moreover crested souvenirs.
1937 to 1954 W A P Watson ceased manufacturing jewellery in the course of the Second World War but concentrated on ration the war effort. Following the war, Exquisite jewellery and the souvenirs production continued. But with increased demand and the confined cosmos free in the Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, the Powers looked in lieu of better premises. Augustus son's Wallis and Jack had nowadays befit the organization directors
1977 The Exquisite Jewellery range was stopped due to the competition of the excessive import of cheaper jewellery from the East. However the crested keepsake range was expanding as more inhabit were able to take holidays in the UK and abroad. Spoons, bells, dispatch openers, thimbles were free in all the tourist gift shops across the UK
1977 to 1989 The company had to reduce employees as they struggled to live on the slump and competition. They produced spanking ranges of Collector' Keepsakes - thimbles, dispatch openers and bells. Also leather goods under the label of Manor Leather craft.
1909 to 1914 - Walter Archibald Parker Watson had a small factory in Hockley mound, Birmingham manufacturing chains and at that moment gilt jewellery.
1914 W A P Watson sold his company to Augustus annoy Power and Clarence Oswald Flint. They set aside the label and subsequently became W A P Watson LTD
1914 to 1934 Following the First World War, Messrs Power and Flint became skilled in producing uniform jewellery. The novel run to of employees was 6 and it was in the course of this instance the range of jewellery was named Exquisite.
1934 The company with its 125 employees encouraged to Hampton Street in the Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter. They moreover had premises in Mary Street. Now not individual producing jewellery but moreover crested souvenirs.
1937 to 1954 W A P Watson ceased manufacturing jewellery in the course of the Second World War but concentrated on ration the war effort. Following the war, Exquisite jewellery and the souvenirs production continued. But with increased demand and the confined cosmos free in the Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, the Powers looked in lieu of better premises. Augustus son's Wallis and Jack had nowadays befit the organization directors
1977 The Exquisite Jewellery range was stopped due to the competition of the excessive import of cheaper jewellery from the East. However the crested keepsake range was expanding as more inhabit were able to take holidays in the UK and abroad. Spoons, bells, dispatch openers, thimbles were free in all the tourist gift shops across the UK
1977 to 1989 The company had to reduce employees as they struggled to live on the slump and competition. They produced spanking ranges of Collector' Keepsakes - thimbles, dispatch openers and bells. Also leather goods under the label of Manor Leather craft.
