A watch is a typical timepiece usually worn around our wrist
and you can barely see it from most people who loved to use it. Some timepiece
are attached to chain and carried in a pocket, but these kinds of watches are
common in the 17th century where the first watch evolved. In the 15th
century, watches are spring powered clocks and were strictly mechanical, but we
can see how technology works and its progress to make things possible. The
mechanism used eventually to measure time was been replaced by use of quarts vibrations
or known as the electronic pulses. Now, do you know that the first digital
electronic watch was made and developed during the 1970?
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Most watches were pocket watches before wristwatches come in
style. Its design comes with covers and were carried in a pocket and is often attached
to a watch chain or watch fob. However,
during the 1900’s the wristwatch was generally known or called as Wrislet and
was made for women. But do you know that during those times also, men who used
to carry pocket watches were quoted as “sooner wear a skirt as wear a
wristwatch”. hmmm… I don’t think so I can get the right logic for this or maybe
just a tease to most men who carry watches and acts as finesse as most women do.
So, when did watches begin to be worn on wrist? During the World
War 1, the soldiers in the battlefield start putting their watches to their
wrist by cupped leather strap because they find the pocket watches so
impractical or somewhat un-useful for them. Just then during the 1800s when
Girard-Perregaux was believed that German Imperial Navy was then able to have
the same design of wristwatches where they used it for firing artillery or
while synchronizing naval attacks.
Wristwatches are made for our timekeeping, and timekeeping
is one of the most important things in a man’s life. I myself used to wear one in my everyday
lifestyle especially when I need to go out of the house or wherever my feet
bring me. This gives me an accurate detail of my day’s time. As far as I can
remember, I start using wristwatch when I was six (6). My papa used to give me
one and often told me to wear it constantly because I need to be aware of the time
(though I don’t know much how to read it by digital). He will give me another
new watch whenever it stopped from movements, and there you go, until I reach
my college days, he’s still the one who will buy me new pieces.
There are expensive wristwatches, but there are also cheap
and affordable watches that you can buy around. Some collectible watches
however are valued more for their workmanship and its aesthetic design than for
its simple timekeeping. But as you can see nowadays, the modern designs of most
wristwatches are already made and provided with different features and
functions such as using GPS technology, heart-rate monitoring, timers,
chronographs and alarm functions. It can even display time, day, date, month
and year aside from its simple task by, timekeeping.
I have a few collections here of my wristwatch, treasured
and loved the most.
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| Cebu Pacific limited watch (bought it during one of my flight with Cebu Pacific Airlines) |
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| My first Cherie Watch |
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| My Citizen quartz watch (a gift from my papa during my 19th birthday) |
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| My other Cherie watch (a gift from Quick on a Valentines day) |
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| White Follie digital watch |
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| Eduardo Verde watch (full of sequence, from Turkey) |
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| Quartz watches (bought from Singapore) |
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| Black Kenneth Cole watch |
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| Rodeo watch (gift from my sister) |
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| My red Stamp watch |
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| My Timex watch (I won this watch from a company raffle draw during Christmas on 2009) |
*watches info via wikipedia
