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Tiffany & Co.
View HistoryTiffany & Co. was founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany in 1837, with their first boutique opening on the corner of Broadway and Warren Street in Lower Manhattan. Tiffany & Co. has always been known as an arbiter of taste and style, selling jewelry, watches, sterling silver and china. No doubt you have heard the term a "New York Minute," which founder Charles Tiffany is credited with establishing.
Tiffany launches its newest collection of watches. The Tiffany CT60 was inspired by a watch originally sold by Tiffany in the 1940s, and given to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a birthday gift in 1945.
Tiffany chief gemologist George F. Kunz patents luminescent paint. Numerals on watches are never quite the same.
Tiffany introduces America's first stopwatch, the Tiffany Timer.
Charles Lewis Tiffany installs a statue of Atlas holding a clock above the entrance of his store. It was one of the first public clocks in New York City.
