Traveling through the history of watches

Watches are neither alike in function nor in form. For every individual need, taste, age, physical condition, lifestyle or profession there are numerous watch types with visual or invisible singularities. The development of watches inherently signifies exactly what it measures - a movement in time and history. Throughout the decades, the tradition of watch manufacturing has relied on and simultaneously changed the established styles and trends of luxury fashion and modern technologies of material processing.

Watches for sea and sky

One of the most significant timepieces exemplifying this tradition is the chronometer. In the early eighteenth century, the term was created by Jeremy Thacker in order to describe his invention of a clock embedded in a vacuum chamber. From that point onwards, chronometers became essential mechanisms used for marine navigation and have proved to be of high significance until the end of the twentieth century. The exactness and reliability of watches have also been indispensable for aerial navigation. Apart from being water resistant, pilots watches need to be unaffected by air pressure while also functioning flawlessly.

'Down-to-earth' watches

In addition to their function in the industry of traveling distances by water and airways, watch mechanisms are used to measure time periods on earth. In everyday life, we are walking, cycling, or driving through the world in order to overcome distances from home to work, from shopping centers to theaters and cinemas, or from school to the gym. As athletes, people furthermore want to test their physical condition by using sports watches to measure the time they need to run a specific distance. As a result, watches are with us every day and everywhere as long as time exists.

For watches in other cultural fields see that article.