Robert and Charles Ingersoll, the founders of the probably oldest American clock watch factory surely set many milestones during its untiring work phase and creativity into and around the development of bag and wrist-watches.
After several attempts. To offer and quality and a responding price realize nevertheless, it succeeded to then develop clocks a broad public later them 1892 by Henry Ford an automated production for watches and also for wrist-watches. It could spread beside, traditional watch factory relating to crafts an automatic production of clocks, already existing, now start.
Under the slogan „a clock resembles the other one“ with a high quality standard and with for the time at that time a relatively reasonable price from later a dollar (corresponded to a daily wage) the dollar in such a way „specified - Watch“ was born. The dollar- Watch was much likes, so that in the long run some millions pieces were produced. Even Theodor Roosevelt mentioned that he as „the man from the country where the Ingersolls are made“ was described, while he hunted in Africa.
Success the dollar – Watch also from now on“Yankee“ was astonishing mentioned. The Ingersoll – of brothers had to always consider to the large demand, by increasing production increased and the production. Thus one of the smallest watches was produced, s.g. „Pocket Watch“. In the year 1919 the Ingersoll of brothers in-wound the first clock in the new night Design, „the Radiolite“ with illuminated figures.
In the meantime produced Charles Ingersoll the army an extra durable mechanical wrist-watch with shortenable metal member volume – the Military „Watch was lifted when desired into the baptism. Later this clock in a small series for clock lovers was presented.
When 1912 the luxury liner „Titanic“ on the young remote travel sank by a tragic accident and many humans their life lost, drowned also the passenger OSCAR Scott Woody, whose watch Ingersoll Midgett provided with „ – an engraving“ was lifted during a dipping course taken place recently to the wreck of the luxury liner.
Beside famous personalities like the Weltumsegler Thomas Drake, Thomas Edison, T. Roosevelt or James Dean is according to for historical reports also Mahatma Ghandi a Ingersoll – clock to have carried.
The pilot Sir Adam Cobham used 1928 a Ingersoll – clock during his flight over the black continent Africa, in order to measure the time precisely. „Since I could rely on none of the clocks on board, I used for the registration of the time only the Ingersoll, her acted always as my trustworthy zeitmesser, seven months long, under the most diverse climatic conditions and on a Stracke of 23000 miles.
There would be many further occurences to report still on the brothers Ingersoll and their Ingersoll Watch company...
Obligated, we Ingersoll and the brothers Charles and Robert Ingersoll calculation would like to carry tradition in this case of the clock mark, by offering a qualitatively high-quality mechanical wrist-watch for an attractive price.
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