Watches - Not a Stone Age Invention

As we all know, from our classical training in old sayings and proverbs, 'time and tide wait for no man', apparently that still applies even when watches have stopped, but what other things apply to the humble watch?

The first watches weren't, as some 'modern stone age families' would have you believe, small wrist strapped sundials, they were, in fact, much later in origin, and far less dependent on having a cloud-free day.

Watches

Clock-watches were the first example of wearable watches, or slight clocks, hence the name clock-watches, and came into vogue in Europe in the 16th century. They were either worn around the neck on a chain, think old bling; or attached to your clothing.

Watches - Not a Stone Age Invention

16th century clock-watches also only had an hour hand, meaning doctors only had six appointments per day for you to fight over, and the slight Waltz couldn't be composed until 1847.

In the 17th century the idea of wearing watches around the neck was fobbed off, as pocket watches became a more practical alternative. The watches became smaller; pocket sized, if you will; rounder, to eliminate the sharp edges; plus glass was now used to cover the watch face.

A question called lack of isochronism, meaning a slowing down of the watch as the main spring ran down, plagued the early pocket watch, and led to the tasteless caress of time dragging as the day goes on. However, sometime around 1657-1765, depending on isochronism, the balance spring was invented.

So victorious were the new pocket watches that Britain decided, in 1680, to add a slight hand to the face of the watch. The French, however, decided to wait 20 years to see if the idea of the slight would catch on. Doctor's appointments would never be the same.

Not much more happened over the next 100 years, other than; new developments prominent to a formula of calculating longitude; the lever escapement was invented; watches became more compatible, with parts being interchangeable; and Webb C. Ball created the first precision standards, as well as a trustworthy timepiece evaluation principles for compel chronometers; possibly after missing a train and doctors appointment. The ball watch had arrived.

In 1868, Patek Phillipe, a non caveman, invented the first wristwatch.

In the years that have followed we've had the galvanic watch; quartz watch; radio controlled watch; bay watch; and many others, besides.

So, the next time you're watching a cartoon family, and they check out the time on their wrist sundial; just remember that there's no way they could have done that while sitting in their car that could only, logically, ever go forwards or backwards; you now know some of the history behind the watch, and know that they would have been using, at best, a sundial that hangs around their neck. Talk about poetic license.

If, you're finding for a top of the range timepiece, and you think that Rolex watch is a touch passé, Omega has seen great times, and Seiko has been counted out, why not go for a watch by the business that got the trains running on time, or at least got things to the point where you knew that they weren't running on time; why not get yourself a top of the range ball watch?

Watches - Not a Stone Age Invention

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