Ingersoll midget watch

Description:The Watch that Made the Dollar Famous In about , Robert Hawley Ingersoll and his brother Charles Henry, operating in New York as a mail-order business, recognized the need for an inexpensive watch that nearly anyone could afford, to be sold for around one dollar. Both the New Haven Clock Company and the Waterbury Clock company had already produced inexpensive "clock-watches" that could meet the need that Ingersoll anticipated, but they had achieved neither mass-market success nor widespread distribution. The positive response prompted Ingersoll to return to Chicago for the World's Fair in , where a new clock-watch with the World's Fair emblem stamped into the case was a huge success.

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