The Elgin National Watch Company originally produced the Chicago 507’s pocket watch in Elgin, Illinois, in 1921 — the same year that the famous American Cowboy Nat Love died. Love was born as a slave on a Tennessee plantation in 1854. After the abolition of slavery, he began working on a farm, where he became incredibly skilled at breaking horses. At age 16, Nat Love traveled to the Western United States and found work as a cowboy at the Duval Ranch along the Palo Duro River in Texas. There, he became a talented marksman. Much of Love’s exploits are detailed in his autobiography Dead Wood Dick, including his meeting of Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and other famous western figures. One adventure he detailed in his book involved being captured by a group of Pima Native Americans while working rounding up cattle in Arizona in 1877. He claimed that he was shot many times before being captured but that the group nursed him back to health because of their respect for his heritage. Supposedly, the group wanted Love to stay within their tribe and marry the chief’s daughter, but Nat Love escaped by stealing one of their horses. Although many of Love’s adventures aren’t corroborated and could be fictional, he left his mark with his famous autobiography, which inspired many pop culture works depicting his adventures, including The Cherokee Kid and the 2021 film The Harder They Fall.