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TGIF. I like to run my ~125 year old antique watch on occasion. It beats loudly in my watch cabinet. I purchased this functioning Ingersoll Waterbury "Yankee" dollar pocket watch off eBay for $30 including shipping. This antique watch was produced around 1900 and is ~#3 million (based on the serial code) out of the 96 million produced between 1892 and 1944. The first affordable watch with the slogan  “The Watch That Made The Dollar Famous”: "They were called Yankees and cost just $1 so any man could buy them for an average day's wages. This was 1896. Their low price was due to the fact that they had no or only one stone, were mass-produced (thanks to Henry Ford) and sold in plain boxes. From a marketing and production perspective, the watch was a breakthrough. In nearly four centuries of watchmaking, no one had ever been able to make a functional personal watch for so little money. The Ingersoll Yankee was widely seen as a testament to modern American ingenuity. All of its parts were made by machine, not by hand. More importantly, the watches were available to everyone, not just the wealthy. As one of Ingersoll’s many admirers put it, “[f]ive hundred years ago, watches were only for kings, weighed pounds, and cost hundreds of dollars each. Now any lively boy can earn and carry a better watch than any of those kings toted.” The Yankee was an inexpensive, well-engineered watch that could be appreciated by nearly every American. Eventually, Thomas Edison, J. P. Morgan, and William K. Vanderbilt, Mark Twain all owned Waterbury-made Ingersoll Yankee watches. " https://www.instagram.com/watchmetrics?igsh=NGVhN2U2NjQ0Yg==
#ingersoll #antique #innovation
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