INGERSOLL BISON NO.28 AUTOMATIC WATCH IN1607BK NEW $475

100% AUTHENTIC, OFFICIAL & ORIGINAL Men's Ingersoll Bison No.28 Automatic Watch IN1607BK (LIMITED EDITION !!) Retail Price: $475.00 Our Price: $329.99

Ingersoll Bison No.28 Watch Men's Model# IN1607BK Retail Price: $460

Stainless steel case. Black leather strap with white stitching. Black dial. Date, day, year, month and 24hour display. Scratch resistant mineral crystal. Automatic movement. Automatic watches recharge through any motion including natural movement of ones wrist. Never requires battery or battery replacement. Caliber 520. Tachymeter. Glass bottom (see thru case-back). Water resistant up to 100 meters/ 330 Feet. Case size: 50mm. Two-year limited warranty.

Ingersoll Watch Company Since 1892

The Ingersoll Watch Company grew out of a mail order business (R H Ingersoll & Bro) started in New York City in 1882 by 21 year old Robert Hawley Ingersoll and his brother Charles Henry. The company initially sold low-cost items such as rubber stamps. The first watches were introduced into the catalogue in 1892, supplied by the Waterbury Clock Company.

In 1896 Ingersoll introduced the Yankee watch priced at $1.00. It was cheaply mass produced from stamped parts and without jewels so that it would be affordable to everyone. They were producing 8,000 per day by 1899, and started advertising that 10,000 dealers carried their "dollar watch." By 1910, Waterbury Clock was producing 3,500,000 "dollar watches" per year for Ingersoll.[1] Over twenty years nearly forty million of these watches were sold, and Ingersoll coined the phrase "The watch that made the dollar famous!" Theodore Roosevelt mentioned that during his hunting trip in Africa he was described as "the man from the country where Ingersoll was produced."

In 1904 Ingersoll opened a store in London, England. In 1905 Robert sailed to England and introduced the Crown pocket watch for 5 shillings, which was the same value as $1 at the time. These were made by a British subsidiary, Ingersoll Ltd, initially assembled from imported parts, and later made entirely in their London factory. These watches were made until the late 1920s, after the American parent company had collapsed.

Ingersoll bought the Trenton Watch Company in 1908, and the bankrupt New England Watch Company in Waterbury, Connecticut, for $76,000 on November 25, 1914. By 1916, the company was producing 16,000 watches per day in 10 different models. In 1917 they produced another popular watch with 7 jewels called the Reliance. In 1919 Ingersoll developed a watch with the so called "night design", the Radiolite with luminous dial.