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During their years of tireless creative urge, Robert and Charles Ingersoll, the founders of Ingersoll watches, one of the oldest American watch manufacturers established many milestones in the field of developing pocket watches and wrist watches.

They followed an ambitious plan to, on one hand, offer Ingersoll 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 to develop an automated 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.