Womens Watches

WHEN WAS THE WATCH INTRODUCED? WHO INVENTED THE WATCH? 

In the 16th century highly inventive clockmakers created the prototypes of the watch. These resembled portable clocks and were available only to the extremely wealthy. In Nuremberg Peter Henlein refined a spring balance mechanism, enabling his watches to be smaller and more like the pocket watches that came later. In the eighteenth century a London watchmaker, Thomas Mudge, incorporated the level escapement, a mechanism enabling watches to keep time much more accurately.

The first women’s watch to be worn on the wrist was made as a piece of jewellery in 1844 by the Swiss watchmaker, Patek Phillipe and Company. At the time men preferred to carry pocket watches. The first men’s watch for the wrist had to wait until 1904 when the wealthy Brazilian aviator, Alberto Santos-Dumont, complained to his friend, the jeweller and watchmaker, Louis Cartier, that a pocket watch was impractical for piloting an aeroplane. Cartier devised a flat watch with a leather band and a small buckle for the wrist. The ‘Carlos Santos-Dumont’ wristwatch was born, and went into general production in 1911.

WHAT ARE THE MOST FAMOUS BRANDS OF WATCH?

Rolex is the largest single watch brand and has to be the most renowned for luxury and status. Rolex is heavily endorsed by A-list stars and celebrities. The founders of the brand set up business in London in 1905 in London, but they first registered the trademark ‘Rolex’ in 1908, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.

Cartier is the second largest worldwide name for luxury watches. Louis Cartier took over his master jeweller’s workshop in 1847. By the early 1900s Cartier had achieved such renown that it became a purveyor of fine jewellery to an increasing number of crown heads of Europe and farther afield.  In 1888 Cartier made a ladies’ jewellery bracelet watch. Following the launch of the ‘Santos’ wristwatches, in 1917 Cartier designers took unlikely inspiration from the World War I tank to make a line of watches that has also been in production ever since. 

Technically intricate and finely crafted, Patek Phillipe watches have fetched the highest prices at auction. However, the price paid is often driven by the company itself, which is always seeking to build its collection in the Geneva Patek Museum. The Pateks had been in Geneva since 1839, and the Patek Phillipe Company was founded in 1851.

Watches have always been one of the things that most people can’t just live without. And that popularity is due not only to their utilitarian purposes, but also because of the sentimental values that watches sometimes hold for their wearers. Watches are also considered as fashion accessories, and personal taste factors a lot in the equation when people choose them.

Right now, men’s watches and women’s watches adorn almost everybody’s wrists that going out without them is almost a reason for panic. Indeed, for their usefulness when it comes to telling what time it is and for their ability to add a little bit of glamour to people’s outfits, a lot of us would feel that we are not properly dressed when we don’t have a watch around our wrist.

The History Of Watches
Timekeeping began even before mankind had developed systemic ways of keeping records. The cavemen relied on the position of the sun and the slanting shadows to chart their activities and plans for the day. Later, when astronomy was invented, the sun stopped being the sole consideration for telling the time. The Zodiac, too, started out as a way of timekeeping.

The first clock that was ever invented was created back in the 1500s. Over time, it got small enough to make wearing it attached to a chain or on a belt. But, that early watch was shaped like an egg and still too big to wrap around a person’s wrist.

Watches went through a lot of modifications and designs before people had the honor of having today’s type of watches. But, that does not mean that all the redesigning and redoing have stopped. Until now, watch designers are looking for more ways to bring people the best that they can ever have, like the following.

The Best Watch Brands
Patek Philippe. Patek Philippe has been in the business since the 19th century. In fact, this company has even been the personal choice of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. The history that surrounds the Patek Philippe brand has long been established, and people buy its watches for the long-term usefulness, and the long-term dedication that has been given by the company to the industry of making men’s watches and women’s watches.

A. Lange & Söhne. This German maker of men’s watches and women’s watches is considered as one of the best watch makers in the whole world. A. Lange & Söhne’s name is always ranked with Patek Philippe. The watches from this company are termed as ‘very unique’ and they also provide refreshing differences from the Swiss watches.