A hundred years ago, the watch on your wrist is not men's accessories - a real man wearing a pocket watch. At that time the watch more durable and reliable than watch. Sometimes, then and now, all this has changed.
Time is Manly
Popularity comes from its pocket watch with 'macho' career, especially the railway workers' associations. While the train is no more reliable than it is now, this is at least a comfort to see that time is a serious consideration, whether it is time to check whether the owners are running the service, or the
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engineer to check the time of the engine movement. Of course, the watch is large, easily lost or stolen, and more expensive.
Time to be practical
At the time, wrist watches are considered to be weak, but the practicality is to make yourself known. Some claim that the soldiers began their pocket to watch early in the American Civil War. This is likely the job is not particularly elegant, but it certainly will make the time more vulnerable check
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the time, and significantly reduce the risk of loss or damage.
To the beginning of the First World War, which is more common is converted into the watch pocket watch, or even a major player in the industry has begun to do so. Many ordinary soldiers can not afford a new watch, of course, so the watch Conversion - so-called "waste form" to distinguish them from real watches - has been very popular among the military.
Time is the wrist
The first real watch - instead of converting pocket watch - Cartier Santos, which is designed for famous Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos Dumont. The pilot was particularly obsessed with watches, the reason is very simple, they can check the time and pay attention to where they were going, is to call a number of other professional features.
World War II, the watch is significantly more popular, the army and watch the rest of the world released their soldiers. Calais & CO is the fact that the annual production of more than 100,000 watches as the United States, Canada and the British Army. There in 1943 of a "last hurray", when the Royal Navy sailors and make their Waltham pocket watch in anticipation of D-Day invasion. These visibility Picks 9 jewel movement, black dial
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and radium numbers in the dark.
Since then, the increasing popularity of pocket watches decline. Although this is a rare sight in 2014, the change is only gradual. Even the major cultural icons like James Dean wore pocket watches; and watch, now often seen as a contrived, obviously this is not the case to the 1950s.
Time is the wrist
The first real watch - instead of converting pocket watch - Cartier Santos, which is designed for famous Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos Dumont. The pilot was particularly obsessed with
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watches, the reason is very simple, they can check the time and pay attention to where they were going, is to call a number of other professional features.
World War II, the watch is significantly more popular, the army and watch the rest of the world released their soldiers. Calais & CO is the fact that the annual production of more than 100,000 watches as the United States, Canada and the British Army. There in 1943 of a "last hurray", when the Royal Navy sailors and make their Waltham pocket watch in anticipation of D-Day invasion. These visibility Picks 9 jewel movement, black
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dial and radium numbers in the dark.
Since then, the increasing popularity of pocket watches decline. Although this is a rare sight in 2014, the change is only gradual. Even the major cultural icons like James Dean wore pocket watches; and watch, now often seen as a contrived, obviously this is not the case to the 1950s.