The Evolution Of Wristwatch Sizes
In the beginning the watch gods created the wristwatch, and it was good.Up until the early 1900s, pocket watches ruled the day for men's timekeeping fashion. These were worn on a chain in a pocket, either in a vest or trousers. It was considered sissy for men to wear watches on their wrists. However, in 1904 Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos Dumont collaborated with his friend Louis Cartier, the famous French watchmaker, to design and create a timepiece for the wrist that could be easily read while flying. Something that wasn't so clunky and awkward as a pocket watch which Dumont hated to keep having to pull out of his pocket in flight. Thus the Cartier Santos was born, and the official birth of a new era in timepiece design: the wristwatch.The wristwatch really caught on during WWI (circa 1917) where the soldiers had the same needs as Dumont�� a convenient timekeeping apparatus that didn't need to be pulled out of a pocket during stressful action times. Finally, it became not only c

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