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 Posted: Fri Mar 9th, 2007 10:46 pm
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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.