I would imagine that Edward Howard and Royal E. Robbins could be matched with watches bearing their names easily enough, and I'd be very surprised if there weren't a picture of B. W. Raymond around somewhere. But below is a perhaps more interesting case.
In April 1861, just as South Carolina shore batteries were firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay, the American Watch Company introduced its new William Ellery Grade Model 1857 watch, which they advertised especially to soldiers. However, there is some uncertainty as to which "William Ellery" after which the watch grade was named. Inasmuch as one man was the grandson of the other, one could even argue that the watch was in some sense named after both men.
The more famous (today) of the two men was Senator William Ellery of Rhode Island, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. It is very possibly not just a coincidence that William Ellery was known to have had abolitionist sympathies. The DoI and its meaning was much on the popular mind at the time, as Lincoln and Douglas had debated the meaning of its most controversial claim that all men are created equal in a series of famous public debates in Illinois in 1858, a claim which was explicitly repudiated by Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens in his infamous "Cornerstone Speech" on March 21, 1861. That AWCo management had strong patriotic, and very possibly also abolitionist sympathies is attested by Royal Robbins's promise to give any AWCo employees who volunteered to defend the Union their old jobs back at the same salary when they returned.
Now, it was in fact Aaron Dennison and not Robbins who named the William Ellery grade when Robbins was out of the country (in Europe, on his honeymoon, as I recall) and the suggestion has been made that Dennison actually had the senator's grandson, William Ellery Channing, who had been a popular preacher who had developed very pronounced abolitionist views in his late career, in mind when he named the Ellery grade. (Dennison was not a unitarian universalist, but he may still have been inspired by Channing's writings.) Points in favor of the idea that Dennison had Channing in mind when he named the Ellery grade are that Channing was more recent than the senator and his abolitionist sentiments were perhaps better known. I like the idea that the watch was in essence named after both men.
The William Ellery grade Model 1857 watch shown here likely was in the pocket of Lieutenant Colonel Elial Foote Carpenter, C.O. of the 112th NY Infantry, when he was mortally wounded fleeing from a Confederate ambush to warn his unit near Drewry's Bluff VA in October 1864. The watch came out of the estate of the late Ron Tunison, who sculpted the magnificent Friend-to-Friend Masonic Memorial in the National Cemetery Annex at Gettysburg, which is my current avatar.
Senator William Ellery of RI (1727-1820), signer of the Declaration of Independence
William Ellery Channing (1780-1842), Unitarian preacher and abolitionist sympathiser, grandson of Senator William Ellery
