While the Disney Company of today may be a merchandising machine, it was not always this way. One of the most successful and popular items that Kay introduced to the public was the Mickey Mouse Watch. Kay submitted the idea to the Ingersoll-Waterbury watch Company. At the time, Ingersoll was on the brink of bankruptcy, and it was the Mickey Mouse watch that brought it back! This first series of watches were comprised of a wrist and pocket watch. Both had a picture of Mickey on the dial with his hands animated, telling the minutes and hours, and a small dial at the bottom with three little Mickeys chasing each other as the seconds ticked by. In , Ingersoll of London began marketing the watches in Great Britain with a different design from the ones in the States. In addition to Mickey on the watches, Minnie also appeared on the watch face, and when this addition proved successful, she got her own watch, just for the girls.

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Dated engravings on the rear of some examples are earlier, but were retrospective. The Smiths pocket and wrist watches marked Made in Britain or Geat Britain made usually in association with Ingersoll who had a stock share in Smiths.

Overall Condition: Steel case is in very good condition with signs of light use and wear in keeping with its age. Dial is in very good condition with no radium burns or discoloration. The luminescent material on the hour markers and hands have aged to a fine even patina. Ingersoll case back is in very good condition with minimal signs of use and age; inside is marked “Made in the USA. After the bells sounded on Armistice Day, the soldiers who had “cursed through sludge” in the trenches of the Great War brought home with them tools and technologies developed during the terrible conflict.

These were not just instruments of destruction, but life-changing–sometimes life-saving–innovations. So soldiers strapped watches to their wrists, and carried them home at parade’s end. Cartier is one brand that popularized wristwatches “over there. On the home front, Hamilton and Elgin produced wristwatches for the American market.

Ingersoll, another American brand, got its start selling rubber stamps via mail order in the s. During the First World War, Ingersoll repurposed its Midget pocket watch for use on the wrists of American soldiers, starting a civilian trend once the War had ended. The Radiolite wristwatch, introduced in , incorporated another newfangled technology in its design: luminescence through Radium.

The stark black dial is highly legible, the puffy Arabic numerals prominent. Coming with its original strap and box!!

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Looks like the red Ingersoll was a 50’s vintage. Came originally with a red band too. Regards,. You Tube: The Wristwatch Experience Channel.

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Kay submitted the idea to the Ingersoll-Waterbury watch Company. This first series of watches were comprised of a wrist and pocket watch.

During their years of tireless creative urge, Robert and Charles Ingersoll, the founders of one of the oldest American watch manufacturers, established many milestones in the field of developing pocket and wrist watches. They followed an ambitious plan that incorporated on the one hand, to offer watches to the broad public, and on the other hand to offer reasonable prices whilst maintaining real quality. In , thanks to Henry Ford, they succeeded in developing an automated method of production, first for pocket watches and later for wrist watches.

Alongside the existing handcrafted production of Ingersoll watches, an automated production of watches was established. With high quality and precision, at the very reasonable price of 1 dollar which was a day’s wages at the time the so-called “Dollar-Watch” was born. The Dollar-Watch became so popular that about 1 million of these watches were produced.

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Yet, it has a rich history that goes as far back to the s. To keep the brand alive, its ownership has been transferred to different companies throughout the years. The brand originated in the US but it has been sold continuously since its inception. Regardless, Ingersoll continues to maintain the ethos of the Ingersoll brothers while presenting a new range of quality, stylish, precision timepieces.

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He got it during World War I, and being first-generation German descent, they wouldn’t give him any firearms, and he bought this as a memento piece, since he couldn’t keep, like, a firearm or anything. He never talked about it. He put all his stuff in a box, basically, and it pretty much stayed there until the grandkids started rummaging through things, and then we found out that this had a radium face on it and my grandmother wouldn’t let us play with it anymore.

So I haven’t seen it for probably 30 years. Prior to the First World War, it was very unusual for gentlemen to wear wristwatches. They would always wear pocket watches.

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The brand originated in the United States of America. The company initially sold low-cost items such as rubber stamps. The first Ingersoll watches, called “Universal” were introduced in , supplied by the Waterbury Clock Company. They were in reality small spring-driven clocks, about three inches diameter and over one inch thick. These were put into watchcases with pendants that carried bows and crowns like contemporary watches.

The crown was not functional, the watch was wound by a captive key that hinged out, and a central wheel was used to set the hands, both accessible when the back was opened just as in a clock.

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Close search. Starting in London as Samuel Smith in , progressing down the years to becoming S. The factory in Cheltenham that eventually manufactured the high quality timepieces featured here was built at the start of the Second World War. By the time Smiths Aviation Division had become the main priority in the late ‘s the Clock and watch Division had broken up.

From the ‘s onwards Smiths Industries had successfully moved on into Avionics, Smiths being instrumental in the development of automated aircraft flying and landing controls, and finally in the ‘s the Aerospace division was extending its reach far into the jet age.

Ingersoll automatic gents watch; Gold dial and Brown leather strap; Date window Watch Men Designer Stainless Steel Wrist Watch Date Fashion Watches.

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During their years of tireless creative urge, Robert and Charles Ingersoll, the founders of one of the oldest American watch manufacturers, established many milestones in the field of developing pocket and wrist watches. They followed an ambitious plan that incorporated on the one hand, to offer watches to the broad public, and on the other hand to offer reasonable prices whilst maintaining real quality.

In , thanks to Henry Ford, they succeeded in developing an automated method of production, first for pocket watches and later for wrist watches. Alongside the existing handcrafted production of Ingersoll watches, an automated production of watches was established. With high quality and precision, at the very reasonable price of 1 dollar which was a days wages at the time the so-called “Dollar-Watch” was born.

The Dollar-Watch became so popular that about 1 million of these watches were produced. Even Theodore Roosevelt mentioned that during his hunting trip in Africa he was described as “the man from the country where Ingersoll was produced. The success of the “Dollar Watch” also called the “Yankee” from then on was amazing. The Ingersoll brothers had to adapt to increasing production and increasing production plants.

Meanwhile, the product range had been expanded by some technical pioneering refinements. Also the production of the smallest pocket watch ever seen had begun. In the Ingersoll brothers developed the first watch with the so called “night design”, the “Radiolite” with luminous dial. Each watch includes Ingersoll Warranty as well.

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