THIS IS THE FIRST OF A REGULAR COLUMN BY MR TALKING HANDS OF WATCHFINDER.COM
Back in the 1800s, when the wristwatch was just a twinkle on a lady’s arm, watches worn by men were to be found elsewhere, namely in the waistcoat pocket. King Charles II, fed up with fashion being dictated across the Channel over in France, had come up with the waistcoat in 1666 as part of a genius idea to make London a global trendsetter, and however which way he persuaded his courtiers to wear them, it did indeed become fashion.
This nugget of sartorial history tells us something very interesting, or rather, two things: that the pocket watch was invented because Charles II had inadvertently introduced somewhere to put it, and that’s pretty much two centuries’ worth of solid pocket watch production before the wristwatch had even been thought of.
FROM POCKET TO WRIST
The wristwatch has only really existed for around 200 years in total,
