travel*style: pocket watches

*photo taken by Ms. New Jersey 2009/2010 last August, during the hurricane in the Hamptons*

That's me and LML in the photo above. Somehow, we've become obsessed with any kind of time piece in existence. Around my house, there are at least 2 clocks in each room. I believe in the past I have purchased for him 2 pocket watches...because he had an obsession with time pieces since he was a younger chap.

However, I have not always had an obsession. I hated wearing a watch...possibly because I never had one that I liked until we began dating.

Here is an excerpt from wikipedia about the wonder that is the pocket watch:
"A pocket watch (or pocketwatch) is a watch that is made to be carried in a pocket, as opposed to a wristwatch, which is strapped to the wrist. They were the most common type of watch from their development in the 16th century until wristwatches became popular after World War I during which a transitional design, trench watches were used by the military. Pocket watches generally have an attached chain to allow them to be secured to a waistcoat, lapel, or belt loop, and to prevent them from being dropped. Watches were also mounted on a short leather strap or fob, when a long chain would have been cumbersome or likely to catch on things. This fob could also provide a protective flap over their face and crystal. Women's watches were normally of this form, with a fob that was more decorative than protective. Chains were frequently decorated with a silver or enamel pendant, often carrying the arms of some club or society, which by association also became known as a fob. Ostensibly "practical" gadgets such as a watch winding key, vesta case or a cigar cutter also appeared on watch chains, although usually in an overly decorated style. Also common are fasteners designed to be put through a buttonhole and worn in a jacket or waistcoat, this sort being frequently associated with and named after train conductors.







An early reference to the pocket watch is in a letter in November 1462 from the Italian clockmaker Bartholomew Manfredi to the Marchese di Manta[citation needed], where he offers him a 'pocket clock' better than that belonging to the Duke of Modena. By the end of the 15th Century, spring-driven clocks appeared in Italy, and in Germany. Peter Henlein, a master locksmith of Nuremberg, was regularly manufacturing pocket watches by 1524. Thereafter, pocket watch manufacture spread throughout the rest of Europe as the 16th century progressed. Early watches only had an hour hand, the minute hand appearing in the late 17th century.[1][2] The first American pocket watches with machine made parts was manufactured by Henry Pitkin with his brother in the later 1830s."
(link to wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_watch)



Now avid collectors: I am moving on to pocket watches myself. I love them. They are beautiful. Look at some of these photos:

and WHEN they come into style for women, just know that it was my idea. and aside from owning a vineyard one day in another incarnation, i will design pocket watches from women.

don't get sued, i have good lawyers ;)

love me,

the globetrotting gamine