Banneker, Inc

Banneker is a watch and clock manufacturing company founded in 2003. The watch and clock offerings of the company are differentiated in the marketplace by virtue of a unique design feature that connects us to our legendary namesake. Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) was a free African American astronomer, inventor, mathematician, surveyor, almanac author, and farmer. At the age of twenty-one, Benjamin met a man named Josef Levi who showed him a pocket watch. Banneker was so fascinated that he studied how it worked, drew a picture of it, and made mathematical calculations for the parts. He worked on building a clock for two years. In 1753, it was completed. It was made entirely of wood and he had carved the gears by hand. This was the first working clock built in the United States. For more than fifty years, the clock struck every hour until it was destroyed in a mysterious fire on the day of his funeral. The company pays homage to Benjamin Banneker by Integrating luxury woods into ...