Pocket Watch To Wrist Watch





All the time we started keeping with the Egyptians around 1500 BC It was a lot of innovations and inventions between that time and 1524 when one of the first watch was invented in the history Italiji.Dio watch that I thought it was intriguing that developed from a pocket watch in an hour we use today.


Sun technology has become small enough to be used in pocket watches in the 16th century. They were big and clunky to 17 century, when the design is applied to a pocket watch. Pocket watches were usually worn by the rich upper klase.Tehnologija grew smaller and more women began to wear wrist watches or satovi.Žena wristlets were considered very feminine, a man who would not be a bracelet.


That all changed during the Boer War (1899-1902). A little trivia stuff here to Boer War is actually the second Boer war and the colonies subsequently created the Union of South Africa. Although the British were better trained and had better equipment they need precise timing to maneuver the entrenched Boers. Some of the soldiers began strapping on the wrist pocket watches with leather straps. This allowed them to track time, without interfering with combat.


The idea started in the Boer War, but has caught on in the Second World War, clocks were manufactured with metal guards that protected the watch face and allowed the wearer to tell time.


And of course it is more masculine than a soldier in combat. When the soldiers returned home wearing a wristwatch nobody going to make fun of them. See the manufacturers started to produce a wristwatch fulfill military orders. There you have it from a pocket watch to watch.

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