The Soviet government bought the defunct Dueber-Hampden Watch Company of Canton, Ohio, and moved twenty-eight freight cars full of machinery and parts from Ohio to Moscow in order to establish the factory.
The Soviet government bought the defunct Ansonia Clock company of Brooklyn, New York in 1929; and the Dueber-Hampden Watch Company of Canton, Ohio. It moved twenty-eight freight cars full of machinery and parts from the USA to Moscow in order to establish the factory.