During this time, the company not only manufactured watchcases but was also the biggest producer of silverware in the United States. The watch plant in Sag Harbor was titled ‘The Fahys Watch Case Co.’, while the firm in New York remained under the name ‘Joseph Fahys & Co.’ The corporation absorbed the Brooklyn Watch Case Company and the Alvin Manufacturing Company of New Jersey. The business was officially incorporated in 1881, when Fahys went into partnership with his son-in-law Henry Francis Cook. It has been suggested that Fahys was able to move to this location only as a result of the socio-economic changes brought about by the Great Fire of Sag Harbor in 1877. Shortly after, Fahys relocated the original plant to Sag Harbor, Long Island. He initially moved the business to 75 Nassau Street in Lower Manhattan, but later relocated the factory back to Carlstadt, New Jersey īy 1867, the company had expanded and a second factory was opened in Brooklyn. In 1857, Fahys had earned enough to be able to buy Savoye’s business and he renamed it: Joseph Fahys & Co. He remained Savoye’s employee for five years until beginning an independent career at the age of 21. He was apprenticed to Ulysses Savoye, of West Hoboken, New Jersey, who was one of the two first watch case makers in the United States. In 1848, Fahys emigrated from France to the United States with his mother. The founder of the company, Joseph Fahys, was born on in Belfort, France.
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