History of the Wrist Watch
From pocket watch to a fashion accessory. What was once, in the earliest years of portable watches, considered to be unsuitable for men and only for ladies, has developed nowadays into a fashion utensil that everybody has. In the meantime, the wrist watch is no longer only a instrument to tell the time. It is a designer piece and can indicate much more than the time.
A great deal of mechanics in a small housing
The first verifiable portable timepiece was built in 1500. This was not a wrist watch, but more of a pocket watch. Through technical progress, which made it possible for people to house mechanics in an more and more smaller space, the required pieces of the clockworks were able to be brought into a manageable form. In this way, the first pocket watch was born, which at the time was still the size of an egg.
The computerized wrist watch from Japan
A completely different wrist watch came onto the market in the 1970’s from Japan, which had built its own watch industry. The new wrist watch from Japan was no more set on a mechanical basis, but on a computerized control. This wrist watch expanded its range of capacity rapidly. The watch no longer just showed the time. The tiny timepiece on the wrist now also knew the date, the day of the week and even knew whether a leap year was involved.
The wristwatch as jewelry
Nowadays, the wristwatch is no longer just a watch. The wrist watch has turn into a fashion accessory. Wristwatches come in all colouration and forms cogitable. One can also get compatible watches from every fashion collection. The current watches are dominated by the correct fashion trends. Despite these contrary trends, there is something for every taste. The small watches, which require spectacles to tell the time, and the extraordinary huge watches, which make it hard to walk upright. Anyway, one thing is certain: science is still likely to make so much advance – that the wristwatch will be found on the wrists of people for a long time, to answer the question as to what time it is.
