What was formerly, in the earliest years of portable watches, seen to be unsuitable for gentlemen and only for ladies, has built nowadays into a fashion utensil that every man has. Meanwhile, the wrist watch is more than a instrument to tell which time it is.

The turn of the 20th century on the wrist

With the turn of the 20th century, another level of technical progress was given, 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 new breakthrough allowed the pocket watch to be quickly exchanged by the wrist watch. It rapidly became the fashion to wear a wrist watch. It appeared like the models sprouted from the ground and the variety produced with great speed. In the early years, however, wristwatches were used only by women. Gentlemen did not wear timepieces on their wrists.It just didn’t seem right. 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 pocket first. And in this way, the wristwatch prevailed with the male sex.

Away from the mechanical – on to electronics

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