A dollar watch was a pocket watch that sold for between about $0.95 to $1.25.

The sale of such watches began in 1892, involving the watchmakers Ingersoll, Waterbury, and New Haven. Later, Western Clock (Westclox) and E. Ingraham also began making them. Dollar watches were practical timepieces, rugged, either unjeweled or with just one jewel, about eighteen size (two inches), and sold for about a dollar from 1892 until the mid 1950s. Many other companies made them, with literally hundreds of names on the dials.

The watches survived much better than the little boxes in which they were sold, making the boxes as collectable as the watches.

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• Photo of watches
• Photo of boxes