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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 394690, member: 25"]Wrist watches were a new thing around 1900-1910 and wrist straps designed to hold small pocket watches were a fairly common adaptation, as were lugs for straps soldered on to small pocket watch cases. Wrist watches started out as ladies accessories but became uni-sex as their usefulness was appreciated,</p><p>This one appears to be a typical Swiss made lady's cylinder movement fob watch in what was called a 'gunmetal' case that was in fact black oxidised steel. (If you heat steel to a high temperature and pass superheated steam over it you get a coating of black iron oxide, FeO3 instead of rust FeO4, and this is very hard,, it protects the steel from further corrosion).</p><p>WWI may have speeded the adoption of wrist watches but there is no real reason to connect this watch with the war. For war watches see 'trench watches'.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 394690, member: 25"]Wrist watches were a new thing around 1900-1910 and wrist straps designed to hold small pocket watches were a fairly common adaptation, as were lugs for straps soldered on to small pocket watch cases. Wrist watches started out as ladies accessories but became uni-sex as their usefulness was appreciated, This one appears to be a typical Swiss made lady's cylinder movement fob watch in what was called a 'gunmetal' case that was in fact black oxidised steel. (If you heat steel to a high temperature and pass superheated steam over it you get a coating of black iron oxide, FeO3 instead of rust FeO4, and this is very hard,, it protects the steel from further corrosion). WWI may have speeded the adoption of wrist watches but there is no real reason to connect this watch with the war. For war watches see 'trench watches'.[/QUOTE]
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