The Radiance of Knowing

What was at one time, in the earliest years of portable wirstwatches, considered to be unsuitable for men and only for ladies, has built today into a fashion utensil that every man wants. Meantime, the wristwatch is more than a instrument to tell the time.

The turn of the 20th century on the wrist

With the turn of the 20th century, another level of technical progress was made, which made it possible to put the mechanisms in an even smaller space. It was now possible to design the clockworks in such a way that people could fasten them to a wristband without a problem. The practical application of this innovational discovery let the pocket watch to be quickly substituted by the wrist watch. It rapidly became the fashion to wear a wristwatch. It looked like the models sprouted from the ground and the variety grown with great speed. In the early years, however, wrist watches were used only by women. Gentlemen did not wear timepieces on their wrists. It just wasn’t done. The war brought a change of mind concerning this. The soldiers quickly recognized the advantage of a watch on the wrist, which didn’t have to be pulled out of the bag first. And in this way, the wrist watch prevailed with the male sex.

Away from the mechanical - on to electronics

While the first watches were still being wound, some innovations developed in relation to the mechanics. The automatic wristwatch emerged, which no longer had to be wound by hand, but was wound automatically through the movement of the wrist watch. Afterwards, at the end of the 20’s, the quartz watch was invented. Time was indicated here by the so-called electronic oscillating circuit. women watches