e.1884

New York, NY

• Original Location: 43 Maiden Lane (In business with his father-in-law, jeweler William Stratt.)
• 1884: 174 Broadway (corner of Broadway and Maiden Lane)
• 1998: 1118 Kings Highway, Brooklyn (branch)
• 2006: Current location: 20 Broad Street, New York

On Barthman and Family’s retirement (c.1983), the business was sold to Jerry Natkin.

Specialties:

• Timepieces
• Jewelry
• Repair services
• Opened in 1884 Customers Included:  Diamond Jim Brady, Lily Langtry, and Lillian Russell, Morgan’s and the Vanderbilt’s, and New York Mayor “Gentleman” Jimmy Walker.

c.1899:

• Interesting Aside: In 1899 at the corner of Maiden Lane and Broadway,  William Barthman embedded a clock directly into the sidewalk itself.
• c. 1966 The clock was refitted and its face was changed.
• 1983:  New owner, Jerry Natkin, with assistance from Cartier, restored and refurbished the clock.