Pocket watches were once rich boy's toys, says Penny Andrews, head of watches at Bonhams, London. 'They were novelty scientific instument; the kind of thing you'd buy to show off to your friends. Ironically, in the mid-tolate 1600s, when they first became fashionable, the only people who could afford to buy them weren't governed by time - they lived lives of luxury and leisure.’
Pocket watches evolved over the course of 400 years or so. In building a collection, you can really
