Brief Information About Watches

By
Essy Clare

In this article, we will look briefly on general information about
watches, where they originated, who invented them, when they were
invented and who was the first person to wear a watch. We all know that a
watch is something that shows time and some of them displays day, date,
month and year as well. Actually, watches are very important in our day
to day lives as they help us manage our time in the right way without
wasting even a single second. The word watch is used as a short form of
wristwatch, which is a name for timekeeping devices which are usually
worn on the wrist.

It is stated that the time from 1500's to 1575
is considered to be the great time of advancement and innovation in
watches. The timepieces in those days were large structures as they were
driven by weights and also their sizes also made them impossible to
carry about. However, in the year 1524, the first portable watch was
produced and it is also said to be the recorded date of the watch but
other watches appeared around 1548, which were mostly of German or
French origin. English and Swiss origin watches came up later on in the
year 1575. Actually, the first portable timepiece was invented in the
year 1504 by a person known as Peter Henlein. We have to note that
wristwatch was invented by the Swiss watch maker, Patek Phillippe in the
late 1800s; which were only worn by women and men wristwatches were
later in the early 1900s by Louis Cartier.

There are different
types of watches and some of them are LCD watches, analog, quartz,
mechanical, jewel and diving watches. LCD watches
uses liquid crystal display to show the time and their numbers are
usually gray or black on a lighter background. Quartz watches have a
quartz crystal as a vibration system and they are most convenient in
usage because there is no need to wind them up or worry that they will
stop if you do not wear it for some days. Quartz crystal provides high
accuracy of movement. A diving watch is water resistant through a depth
of between fifty to one hundred meters and it is marked on the dial.
Instead of the usual push/pull crown, a diving watch has a screw down
crown and this creates a better water tight seal. Analog watches are
watches that have hands, there may be a second hand or not. The second
hand moves in continuous sweeping motion.