Today there is a world of accessorizing. All of the fashion magazines and women's television shows are about accessorizing. There are TV shows on modeling and makeovers and redoing your closets. The world of fashion is basically about accessorizing. Women are the leaders in accessories when compared to men. But there is one accessory that both men and women wear and these unisex accessories are wrist watches. A wrist watch is extremely common and if you look closely nine out of ten people wear a wrist watch. The majority of women have more than one watch in their possession and many women have several wrist watches. Some women collect wrist watches like they do shoes.
The Price We Pay
The price of a watch can vary greatly. You can spend six figures on a Cartier watch or a Rolex watch and you can spend $5.00 on a Cartier knock-off. So it is very easy to look like the wealthy while paying pauper prices. Most people cherish the real watch brand that they own. They find a brand that works for them and that will last a long time and they will stick with that brand of wrist watch. As the saying goes, if it isn't broke, why fix it?
A good watch that keeps the correct time and lasts several years and looks fabulous on the wrist is considered a good wrist watch. An individual who has found this style of watch will always purchase this brand of watch again. In an era where our lives revolve around the time, it is imperative that we have good wrist watches that we can depend on. Sometimes these watches can cost as little as $25.00 dollars and sometimes they are priced in the hundreds of dollars, but the middle range for good wrist watches is about $75.00. Shopping on Canal Street one can find any kind of watch imaginable. There are leather-banded watches, faux diamond encrusted watches and faux gold and silver watches. The labels on these watches are usually changed to a designer label if the customer requests it.
Watches are sold on the Internet anywhere from $5.00 to $1,000.00 and more. It is a gamble to purchase a watch on the Internet because you really do not know what you are buying, if it was made in China or if it will work when you receive it. Black market wrist watches are everywhere and if you want a good working watch you should probably buy it in a reputable boutique or department store.
The very first widely worn wristwatches were designed exclusively for women and called wristlets. Men of the late 19th century and early 20th century still kept track of time using a pocket watch. They considered the wristlet a fashion trend that would, like all others, come and go; and the wristwatch would at that time never be considered by men as anything but a feminine bobble for women.
The wristwatch as a useful way to conveniently keep time for men actually started out as a wartime necessity. The British army in their fight against South Africa in the Boar War in the early 1900s strapped pocket watches to their wrist so that they could hold their weapons and still synchronize maneuvers with other troops. The first wristwatches for men were promoted to the military for men going into active service. Many of these influential men found the convenience of not fishing in a pocket for their watch indispensable even after returning from the field.
Changes in watchbands also added to the popularity of the wristwatch for both men and women. The flexible band pieces that attached to the open-faced watch made it easy to fasten a leather strap, which kept the watch securely, attached to the wrist. Now wristwatches were standard military issue for the allied troops of World War I.
In 1915, The Rolex Watch Company, formerly known as Wilsdorf & Davis, was founded. Hans Wilsdorf liked the idea of a wristwatch for both men and women and worked to improve the accuracy. Rolex was recognized as a leader in this research and received the first wristwatch Chronometer award given out by the School of Horology in Bienne.
In the mid-1920s, following the war, men started to associate wristwatches with the brave heroes who fought and no longer viewed them as only for women. Rolex seized upon this new image and continued through the 1950s to market watches specifically to men. Professional, masculine-style watches were developed to be worn by men in various fields of work.
The development of new technology capable of tracking time and performing the other functions of a cell phone or planner may lead to a time when the watch will be less of an important way to keep time and more of fashion accessory or status symbol. But, let’s face it, if anyone ever asks you if you know the time, your first instinct is to raise your wrist, whether or not you remembered to put on your watch!
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