Serial Number: PW 0061
Subcategory: Pocket Watch
Status: Display
Description:
Ingersoll Yankee
Radiolite
Made in USA
Ingersoll is America’s original watch brand. During their years timeless 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 one hand, to offer watches to the broad public, and on the other hand to offer reasonable prices while maintaining real quality. In 1892, 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, the so called Dollar Watch was
born. The success of the dollar watch, also called Yankee Watch was amazing. The Ingersoll brothers had to adapt to increasing production and increasing production plants. The product range, had been expanded by some technical pioneering refinements and production of the smallest pocket watch ever seen had begun. In 1919, the Ingersoll brothers
developed the first watch with the so called night design , the Radiolite with luminous dial.
