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LizaJane
04-17-2006, 04:57 AM
Hi,
I am searching info on a watch.
E Ingraham Company
Bristol, Conn USA
56
Sentinel Click
Here is a pic:
http://usera.imagecave.com/LizaJane/watch-copy.jpg
LizaJane
04-17-2006, 04:57 AM
Hi,
I am searching info on a watch.
E Ingraham Company
Bristol, Conn USA
56
Sentinel Click
Here is a pic:
http://usera.imagecave.com/LizaJane/watch-copy.jpg
LizaJane
04-17-2006, 06:39 AM
Just to let you know, the dial above the six is for seconds.
LizaJane
04-17-2006, 10:22 AM
Found this on ebay, first I have seen that even looks like the one I have:

http://usera.imagecave.com/LizaJane/Beacon.jpg
John F
04-18-2006, 11:55 AM
Hi LizaJane, and welcome to the NAWCC bulletin board. I can help you a little with your watch, but unfortunately, it's just a little as I am not that familiar with Ingraham watches.

The E. Ingraham Co. was located in Bristol Ct., and produced watches domestically from the early 1910s to the late 1960s, when they began importing watches. The old company records are kept by the Univeristy of Conn. library, and I believe that the company still exists in some form. They made a ton of watches (something like well over 50 million, if I'm remembering correctly), and under a lot of different names, among them the Sentinel example that you have and the Beacon one you found on ebay.

This just about exhausts my knowledge of Ingraham. I think that they primarly made watches that were more widely affordable/low priced than those made by companies such as Waltham, Elgin and Illinois (among others).

Hopefully someone with more knowledge of this company can add to what I've written here, or correct me if I've gotten something wrong.

John
LizaJane
04-20-2006, 01:40 PM
You are right on John and I will post a response I got from Perry with PocketWatchers.com:

Your watch in this fancy case with a watch pin that matches, is worth more
than the price guide indicates. It states that a Sentinel Click would be
worth $30-60. This one, I believe should be worth $100-150 in such good
condition.
Ingraham produced 65 million watches between 1913 and 1968 in Bristol, CT.
It is a dollar type watch, made with stamped out, mass produced movements
with no jewels. Your movement, in a plain case would have cost around one
dollar. I don't have any info on what yours in the fancy case would have
sold for.