Ingersoll

Jewellery Junkies are product to be official stockists of Ingersoll Watches & Pocket Watches. Since 1892 Robert & Charles Ingersoll, the founders of one of Americas oldest watch manufacturers, have established many many milestones in developing pocket and wrist watches. They wanted to maintain reasonable prices whilst still having real high quality and precision, the 'Dollar-Watch' was born, which was approximately a days wages at the time, this was seen as a very fair and reasonable price, they were so popular a million of these watches were produced. With Theodore Roosevelt during his time in Africa was known as 'The man from the country where Ingersoll was produced'. Since then the brothers had to adapt to be able to increase their production line. The range has been expanded by some technical pioneering refinements, and in 1919 the first night design watch with luminous dial was born. Sir Alan Cobham used an Ingersoll watch during his continent flight over Africa, saying he could not rely on any times on board so therfore used an Ingersoll watch, claiming over distances of 23,000 miles and over it had been reliable under different climatic conditions, which is now celebrated on one of the Ingersoll watches. In 1932 the idea was hatched for the mickey mouse watch, and by June 1935, 2.5 million had sold due to overwhelming popularity. Even time keeping by Mohandes K.Ghandi was kept by using a gold plated Ingersoll Pocket Watch, claiming time-keeping to be an integral part of his life, dictating every aspect of his waking day. Hollywood also loved ingersoll watches with such big stars as Marilyn Monroe and James Dean rumored to be fans of the Ingersoll brand. To the present day Ingersoll has not lost its classic values, calling it a 'Modern Classic' recalling is heritage. Top value at fair prices caters for the customers of today.