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ern1911 3T WIS
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I've been reading Gene Stone's book, "The Watch". While it seems to be mainly a coffee table book, I still find it's Introduction informative and interesting. I thought it might be interesting to start a thread of interesting watch facts/history that people have read or learned. One of the thing's I didn't know or realize was that the wrist watch was initiially for women. In the early days of watch making the time pieces began as little boxes that were to bulky to carry around and were mainly mantle pieces. From there watches evovled to pocket watches mainly carried by men, and the first wrist watches were designed for women. With the advent of World War I, many watch innovations took place which pretty much brought the wrist watch to what we know it as today. |
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Tony Duronio 3T WIS 
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ern1911 wrote: I've been reading Gene Stone's book, "The Watch". While it seems to be mainly a coffee table book, I still find it's Introduction informative and interesting. I thought it might be interesting to start a thread of interesting watch facts/history that people have read or learned. Good stuff...I never knew about the woman thing though. Thanks for sharing and a great ideahand6.gif |
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ern1911 3T WIS
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another interesting note.... One of the first Aviator watches was created by Louis Cartier, when asked to by a Brazailian Aviator for his venture into flight. |
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