Wristwatches became widely accessible after the modern inexpensive production of miniaturized watch mechanisms in the twentieth century. Since their first introduction, watches have been marketed as a necessity, a trendy accessory or a tool in a range of designs and colors in order to cover the needs of diverse audiences. But apart from displaying time, dates, days, months, and year information, modern watches have someone else important feature: they transport culture.
Being the most widely used time device, inexpensive, medium-priced or expensive collectible watches are purchased and widely used today by all. Before wristwatches, citizen used to carry pocket watches, which had covers and were placed into a pocket and attached with a light chain from a belt or pin. Years after the first pocket watch was introduced, citizen continue to buy them in jewelry stores or search for them in flee markets because really old ones are thought about to be collectible items.
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The wristwatch was invented by Patek Philippe at the end of 19th century and it was thought about at the time to be a woman's accessory. Men begun wearing wristwatches when Louis Cartier created one especially for his Brazilian friend, Alberto Santos-Dumont, who had issue checking the time while working on his aircraft invention. The leather-band wristwatch Cartier gave to Dumont never left the latter's hand and soon, the Parisian male buyer became curious in Cartier's idea of this new movable time device. The great popularization of the wristwatch became possible after the end of the World Wars, since troops officers kept their wristwatches and introduced them to the Western culture as a very useful and quick expedient to check time. The idea of wearing this time accessory became beloved because one could oftentimes and swiftly view the time while wearing a wristwatch in comparison to the older time-consuming version of pocket watch.
Today, wristwatches are using self-winding, kinetic, electronic, light-powered or thermal power watches to comfortably check time. The differences in the middle of these different types of watches have to do with the way each watch receives the vital whole of power in order to continue its operation. Moreover, wristwatches can display time whether in an analog or digital way. The unlikeness here has to do with how one prefers having time displayed; whether with a numbered dial upon which a rotating hour and longer miniature rotating hand operate, or straight through a digital display that shows time as a number. Although economy electronics permitted the popularization of digital watches, the newer analog form did not replace the widely used analog watches. Today, citizen use both, as well as more complicated watch types, since different types of time devices serve different types of citizen during their daily tasks.
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