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 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 (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. 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 1919 the Ingersoll brothers developed the first watch with the so called "night design", the "Radiolite" with luminous dial. The Ingersoll Men's San Bernardino Fine Automatic timepiece features a stainless steel case, genuine leather strap with faux croco texture, and a mineral crystal. The dial features rose gold tone Arabic and index markers, year and month window, day sub dial, date sub dial, open balance wheel, and luminous hands. This timepiece is water resistant to 30 meters and it is backed by a two year limited warranty provided by the distributor.
A**R
Great looking watch
Great looking watch. Nice weight - not too heavy or bulky, very comfortable on wrist (I have over 7" wrist). The band is 20mm at the lugs and is a little narrower at the clasp - thinner than I'm used to - but again, very comfortable and nice quality. Sweep hand is very nice and mechanism looks great.
H**0
This watch is very pretty, however
This watch is very pretty, however, the quality is not very good in my case, it stopped working on the second day despite I followed the manual word by word: only adjust it on the allowed timezone for setting up time. Overall, this product needs a lot better quality control in order to win over people's heart, just pretty face is not enough.
H**Y
Four Stars
Nice watch
J**A
I love it
J**S
Warning – Do your research before you buy this watch.
This watch looks suspiciously like a repackaged inexpensive Chinese wrist watch that can be purchased for under $40 on ebay. I picked up the Guanqin “Aviator” version out of curiosity for what $38 could buy. I was neither disappointed nor overwhelmed when I received the watch. It is a $40 watch, nothing more. The Ingersoll looks like the same watch with few functional / mechanical differences, just a different dial face.The leather band and essentially non-functional deployant clasp appear to be the same, just different branding.Be advised that the month and year functions are not automatic but are updated manually through a pusher on right side or a recessed button on the left side of the case. Mine also has an additional hand on the week sub-dial that I have yet to figure out. I believe it is a 24 hour function but does not seem to be adjustable through the crown or any of the pushers and buttons.
M**S
Four Stars
Nice.....
P**R
Five Stars
Good materials
J**E
Five Stars
Very nice looking. Works great.
R**R
Muy estético pero funcionamiento mejorable
La estética de este reloj automático es espectacular. El problema es que en teoría lleva una reserva de carga de 36 horas, pero ya me ha pasado más de una vez que al ir a ponérmelo por la mañana estaba parado, y lo había llevado puesto durante todo el día anterior. Además el indicador del mes es manual.
W**T
Very happy with this watch the design is amazing and pictures ...
Very happy with this watch the design is amazing and pictures don't do it justice. Date is very hard to see but the design makes up for that. Dial has a incredible texture that i can't stop looking at . Overall i think this watch is worth way more than what it sells at.
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