Abbady Watch Archive
Ingersoll
Robert and Charles Ingersoll built a mass-market watch business around the idea of dependable timekeeping at a price ordinary customers could afford. Their inexpensive “dollar watch” helped turn the watch from a specialist possession into an everyday consumer product.
Abbady photographic archive
Ingersoll photographs
Origins and period
New York, United States
Watch business established in the 1890s
Ingersoll in watchmaking
Robert and Charles Ingersoll built a mass-market watch business around the idea of dependable timekeeping at a price ordinary customers could afford. Their inexpensive “dollar watch” helped turn the watch from a specialist possession into an everyday consumer product.
Known for
The Yankee dollar watch, mass distribution, affordable American timekeeping, and character watches including licensed Mickey Mouse models.
Historical development
Robert and Charles Ingersoll built a mass-market watch business around the idea of dependable timekeeping at a price ordinary customers could afford. Their inexpensive “dollar watch” helped turn the watch from a specialist possession into an everyday consumer product.