and more ‘how come it took so long?’ Character watches have been around almost from the beginning. Ingersoll’s famous Mickey Mouse watch from 1933 wasn’t even the first, and there’s hardly a comic ...

His solution? A watch featuring Mickey Mouse, his yellow-gloved hands rotating to tell the time. Response to the $3.75 timepiece was immediate. Macy’s sold 11,000 the first day it went on sale ...