The Waterbury Button Company
Makers of Premium Stamped Metal Brass Buttons since 1812
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Since 1812, weÍve crafted the worldÍs most popular metal buttons. When Gen. Ulysses S. Grant met Gen. Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Courthouse, both men wore Waterbury buttons on their chests. Today we make buttons for the fashion industry, professional golf and itsÍ associations and every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Today, computer-aided design and technology reduces tooling time for a new design to two to three days. Still, hand tooling is, at times, as indispensable as it was in 1812 at The Waterbury Company, where craftspeople still make artful cuts by hand to produce high-domed buttons or designs too creative to trust to a computer. The dies are fitted into stamping presses, where button shells are embossed with designs. From there, button shells are plated in gold, silver or chemical finishes before they're polished, attached to separately produced backs, lacquered and packed for shipping to customers around the world. We have amassed approximately 40,000 different button dies, each a work of art. At times, innovative owners, responding to breakthroughs in materials technology, steered the company into other lucrative endeavors, from as vinyl records to bomb fuses.
- Founded
- 1812
- Team
- 1
- Industry
- Apparel & Accessories
- Based in
- Cheshire, CT, United States
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What they make
2- Accessories
- Fasteners
- Specialities 8
- buttons · Chemical Finishes · collectibles · fashion · gold · military
Specialities
- buttons
- Chemical Finishes
- collectibles
- fashion
- gold
- military
- silver
- uniform
Cheshire
CT, United States
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