This firm registered a silver mark from Furnival Street in 1896.  In 1900, Watson & Gillott was based in Caledonia Plate Works, Eyre Lane, as manufacturers of holloware, cased goods, spoons and forks, with ‘repairs and re-plating a speciality’.  The partners were William Joseph Watson (1873-1967) and Herbert Heiffor Gillott (1875-1944)  Watson had been born in Sheaf Gardens, the son of a Sheffield silversmith (and publican), Joseph Watson, and his wife Mary Jane.  Gillott was born and bred in Heeley.   He was the son of George William Gillott (see W. Gillott), a pearl fluter, and his wife Ellen Arnold.  Watson & Gillott operated in Eyre Lane until the start of the Second World War.   Herbert H. Gillott, Broomgrove Road, died on 15 August 1944, leaving £922.