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A pocket watch (or pocket watch) is a watch made to be carried in a pocket, unlike a wristwatch that attaches to the wrist.

They were the most popular type of clock from their development in the 16th century until wristwatches became popular after World War I during which the military used a transitional design, the trench clocks. Pocket watches generally have a chain link to allow them to be attached to a waistcoat, lapel, or belt loop, and to prevent them from falling off. The watches were also fitted to a short leather strap or fob, when a long chain would be cumbersome or likely to get stuck on objects. This piece can also provide a protective flap on face and crystals. Women's watches were usually of this shape, with a wristwatch being more decorative than protective. The chains were often decorated with silver necklaces or enamels, and often held the arms of some club or community, which also became known as fob. Ostensibly practical tools such as a watch winder, Vesta case, or cigar cutter have also appeared on watch chains, although they are usually overly ornate. 

  • Open-face watches

The open-faced pocket watch, is a watch that lacks a metal case to protect the crystal. It is usual for an open-faced watch to have the pendant at 12:00 and the second sub-dial at 6:00. Sometimes a watch movement dedicated to a fishing case (with a cabbage stem at 3:00 and a second sub-dial at 6:00) has an open-faced case. This watch is known as the "sidebar". Alternatively, this watch movement may be fitted with a so-called shift dial, which moves the winding stem to 12:00 and the sub-second dial to 3:00. After 1908, railway service certified watches were required to be wrapped in open-faced cases with a twisting trunk at 12:00.

Hunter-case watches

The Hunter pocket watch is a case with a round, spring-hinged metal cover or cover that closes over the watch's dial and crystal, protecting them from dust, scratches, and other damages or debris. The name originates from England where "fox hunters found it convenient to be able to open their watch and read the time with one hand, while holding the reins of the" hunter "(horse) in the other. Most antique and antique case watches have cover hinges at 9 o'clock and the watch's stem, crown, and bow at 3 o'clock. Modern pocket watches usually have cover hinges at 6 o'clock and the leg, crown and bow at 12 o'clock, as with open-faced watches. . In both watch case styles, the sub-seconds dial was always at 6 o'clock. At the top of this page appears a hunter-box pocket watch with a spring-loaded ring chain. The intermediate type, known as demi-hunter (or half-hunter), is a box style in which the outer cover has a glass plate or an opening in the middle that gives a view of the hands. Watches, often with a blue enamel, are marked on the outer case itself; Hence with this type of situation one can tell the time without opening the cover.

 

 

  • Tissot Bridgeport Lepine Mechanical Pocket Watch

 

Tissot Muttaqan, distinguishes Bridgeport Lepine with classic and modern classics. Distinguish the face with Arabic numerals and the shortest period of 60 seconds at the sign of the hour 6, and look at the old balloon on the modern emerald. 

 

  • ShoppeWatch Half Hunter EagleShoppeWatch Half Hunter Eagle

 

In this watch the bronze mineral ore is exposed in detail, and it is possible to see a part of the clock behind each wing. Distinguish this hour with a series of mineral scales of 14 feet, and distinguish between the figures of the Arabian Peninsula and the decision of the classic three-dimensional movement of quartz.



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