World Class Watches
In a world dominated by mass production, where mediocrity is the standard, it is comforting to know that craftsmanship and attention to detail is still valued and available. Time remains the ultimate mystery to humans. It took hundreds of years for man to figure out exactly what time was, how to plot it out on a calendar, to gage the passage by the movement of the sun and the stars. Early sailors were baffled on how to keep accurate time aboard ship to aid them in navigation around the globe. Our survival as a species depended on the mastery of time.
Its no wonder then that
so many fine watch lines developed over the centuries just to measure time. In
the 21st century we are able to buy low cost, mass produced watches of just about every
shape and color imaginable. Many Americans have several watches to match their mood,
outfit, activity and lifestyle. 
A
few though know the pleasure of owning and collecting fine watches. Those that
took years to design and are crafted by hand.
These fine watches are valued by their owners, becoming family heirlooms to be handed down to children and grand-children. Perhaps it is through this that man has attained a mastery of time. Passing thru the generations, measuring the passage of time, yet re-assuring us with its timeless qualities.
Only at the beginning of this century people started to wear wristwatches as we know them now. Probably the First World War helped in bringing them into general use. For soldiers it is a matter of life or death to know when to attack or to retreat. And a watch worn on the wrist is much handier than a watch worn somewhere in an inside pocket. Because the wristwatch was more vulnerable, being in the open at all times, early military wristwatches have a protective grid. Maybe this vulnerability of the wristwatch hastened by the invention of the watertight wristwatch and shock absorbing systems like 'incabloc'.
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