Pocket Watches, The Status Symbol
Pocket watches were first created in France in the fifteenth century. Currently some firms continue to produce important.
With looks and different ways, the pocket watches have gone six centuries until today. They have never ceased to occur, although its use in the present is very different from yesteryear.
History of Pocket Watches
In ancient times pocket watches were a symbol of economic status; men wore them in his vest pocket and then also take your name: watch “pocket.”
The first pocket watches were square, and it was not until the seventeenth century when they begin to be manufactured with more rounded shapes. A century later begin to use precious metals and stones, in addition to prints, to decorate. It is also in the eighteenth century pocket Watches come with Three Hands, Setting Hours, Minutes and Seconds.
With the elapse of time, the wristwatch was impersonating a pocket watch. Currently there are objects highly valued by collectors, to the point that in 1999 the auction house Sotheby’s sold a watch for the exorbitant figure of eleven million dollars.
Pocket Watches, Until Today
Crowds of people still buy pocket watches, simply for the pleasure of having them or collect them. Because without any doubt some of these are real time meters and beautiful wonders, the result of the creativity and talent of many watchmakers anonymous.
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