KEN KRAMER'S ABOUT SAN DIEGO: Otay Watch Company & Mystery At San Diego State

By Jennifer Robinson / Web Producer

Published May 20, 2020 at 9:59 AM PDT

Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App + Encores Sunday, Oct. 22 at 4 p.m. on KPBS TV and Monday, Oct. 23 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2

On this episode of KEN KRAMER'S ABOUT SAN DIEGO, we take a look back at the Otay Watch Company; we remember a pioneering doctor in Alpine; and open the door to a campus mystery at San Diego State.

If you have one of these, lucky you! The Otay Watch Company made more or less precision pocket time pieces at a factory in Otay Mesa 100 years ago. We go back for a look on KEN KRAMER'S ABOUT SAN DIEGO!

Plus, get an update on several stories About San Diego, along with viewer curiosities and and memories of our county in the old days.

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KEN KRAMER'S ABOUT SAN DIEGO: Otay Watch Company & Mystery At San Diego State

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