Watches

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 17^th century where the first watch evolved. In the 15^th 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 The mechanism used eventually to measure time was been replaced by use of quarts vibrations or known as the electronic pulses.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. 

Cebu Pacific limited watch (bought it during one of my flight with Cebu Pacific Airlines)

My first Cherie Watch

My Citizen quartz watch (a gift from my papa during my 19th birthday)

My other Cherie watch (a gift from Quick on a Valentines day)

White Follie digital watch

Eduardo Verde watch (full of sequence, from Turkey)

Quartz watches (bought from Singapore)

Black Kenneth Cole watch

Rodeo watch (gift from my sister)

My red Stamp watch 

My Timex watch (I won this watch from a company raffle draw during Christmas on 2009)

*watches info via wikipedia