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Ingersoll, an American company founded in New York in 1892, creates vintage watches that can transition from the streets to a nice dinner with ease. The Reliance is a stainless steel timekeeper in two classic colors Read More
"Ingersoll, an American company founded in New York in 1892, creates vintage watches that can transition from the streets to a nice dinner with ease."
This repeated description of Ingersoll is incomplete at best:
Ingersoll went bankrupt in 1921
Purchased by the Waterbury Clock Company in 1922, which later became Timex and continued producing Ingersoll watches for the U.S. into the 1950s
London-based division of Ingersoll sold and became wholly British owned in 1930
British-based Ingersoll Ltd. joined with Smiths Industries Ltd. and Vickers Armstrong after World War II and became the Anglo-Celtic Company Ltd.
Ingersoll Ltd. departs from the venture in 1969 and continues making watches until their factory closes in 1980
Ingersoll is now owned by Zeon Watches, a British subsidiary of the China-based Herald Group - watches are designed in Germany and made in China
Oh stop it--plenty of watches look like other watches!
Why is everyone so concerned about who's bastard child this or that watch might be? You people sound like plaintiffs in a damn paternity suit! And what's up with this conspiracy theory that claims Rolex was every other watch's Milkman? Everyone hung up on this petty genealogy stuff should do us all a favor and slide on over to:
http/: who's-my-watch's-baby-daddy-anyway.com
and let everyone else get on with making an informed purchase decision!
Now, as for this watch, I kinda like it! I'm sure it comes with the usual non-hacking movement, but I know lots of people don't really care about that, particularly in a sub one-hundred dollar watch. I don't claim this is the best sub one-hundred dollar watch, or even the best deal on one, but it does come with a 2 year warranty. And so far as I know, no one has yet had a bad experience with any Ingersoll purchased on MD. Correct me if I'm wrong...
My guess is for those who don't want to spend a lot of time researching other deals, this one will do just fine.
If you want a more true to like Explorer copy, with sapphire crystal and same miyota movement
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000808960022.html
Otherwise search explorer watch on ali and you can find many, many Rolex explorer copies with Sapphire crystal and better specs all around, mostly chinese or this miyota movement, too thin for the Seiko but maybe there's one out there. Solid casebacks and truish copies of the bracelet too, all for like 50-70 bucks. and if you can find a Miyota that is new enough, it will have hacking!
quite a chunk of the rainforest and an iron ore mine . But all in all the box's are cool , and the ' Reliance ' is a very nice watch with great specifications for little money ,I am very happy with my 4 so Ingersoll's so far , zero problems in time keeping and build .
These are a well made watch all being told .
Assuming you're okay with the movement (which certainly works well enough, but doesn't hack), this is probably the best looking incarnation of the Ingersolls offered so far. Earlier versions, particularly those that attempted a vintage appearance, missed their marks "Bigly."
Whether you see this as a SARB homage, or just another generic, but not at all bad looking sport watch, makes no difference--it is what it is, and I assume those who purchase it will do so for their own reasons. On the other hand, why Ingersoll wasted all the money on the wooden boxes and steel "authenticity" cards, as opposed to upgrading the movements remains a mystery!
Question for Drop: Screw down crown or push/pull? Watch buyers like to know these details.
Question for Ingersol: Why waste time money on a wooden box? Throw it in cardboard and use the savings to upgrade to a sapphire crystal.