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Harry Weisman (1887-1952) was a Brooklyn jeweler who was well known for his skill at watch repair. Inheriting the trade from his father, a German immigrant, Weisman could fine-tune spring-wound pocketwatches to enough accuracy that they were commonly used in artillery timing among American troops in World War I, particularly during the Hundred Days Offensive in 1918. Hard times hit during the Depression, causing him to declare bankruptcy in 1932 and relocate to Chicago following his son's death from tuberculosis two years later. He worked odd jobs in the Chicago area until eventually committing suicide twenty years later.
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