Watch City Steampunk Festival

Waltham, MA

Centered on Waltham’s beautiful Common at the corner of Main and Moody Streets, the Watch City Steampunk Festival is the great outdoor festival of the Steampunk genre—a cultural and social movement melding elements of Victorian-era history and fashion with retro-futuristic technology.

Watch City 2015 will featuring a broad array of theatrical and musical performers as well as clothing, jewelry, art, and food vendors. The Festival is will also include kids programming, making this most definitely a family friendly event, as well.

Ask a Steampunk: How Did Waltham Become "Watch City"?

April 16, 2023  /  Melissa Honig

The Waltham Watch Company was a company that produced about 40 million watches, clocks, speedometers, compasses, time delay fuses, and other precision instruments in the United States of America between 1850 and 1957.

At this time, the production of items such as pocket watches was moving from being a handcrafted process to one that could be mass produced in a factory. The Waltham Watch Company’s timepieces were well-made and well-regarded. For example, after the Civil War, the company became the main supplier of railroad chronometers to various railroads in North America and more than fifty other countries.

With the passage of time and changes in technology, the Waltham Watch Company eventually closed its doors. Today the building still stands and has been converted into housing. This video was filmed in the museum space inside the factory building! Learn more about today’s Watch Factory at https://www.walthamwatchfactory.com/

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