From pocket watch to a fashion accessory. What was once, in the earliest years of portable watches, considered to be unsuitable for gentlemen and only for ladies, has developed nowadays into a fashion utensil that everyone has. In the meantime, the wristwatch 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 developed in 1500. This was not a wrist watch, but more of a pocket watch. Through technical advancement, 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 entirely new watch came onto the market in the 1970’s from Japan, which had developed its own watch industry. The new watch from Japan was no more set on a mechanical basis, but on a computerized control. This wristwatch extended its range of capacity quickly. The watch no more just showed the time. The little 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
Today, the wrist watch is much more than a watch. The wrist watch has become a fashion accessory. Wristwatches come in all colouration and shapes imaginable. One can also get harmonious watches from every fashion collection. The current watches are dominated by the correct fashion trends. Despite these different trends, there is something for every taste. The tiny watches, which require glasses to tell the time, and the extravagant huge watches, which make it difficult to walk upright. Anyway, one thing is clear: science is still likely to make so much advance – that the wrist watch will be seen on the wrists of people for a long time, to respond to the question as to what time it is.