As many antique collectors and dealers will tell you, antiques afford a wonderful opportunity to go back in time. As an antique clock collector myself I've come to truly appreciate the splendor of the craftsmanship that allows antique clocks to run without batteries. Most people will appreciate the workmanship of a grandfather clock that keeps time by way of a swinging pendulum, but there are a lot of different antique clocks and each one has its own amazing way of keeping time. It's a shame that as a generation of watchmakers and clock repairers retire in their old age that many of the skills required to keep antique clocks alive are being lost.

The essence of the inside of an antique clock is an intricate machinery of tiny moving parts. Compare this to the modern clock - particularly digital varieties - that run via batteries and computer chips. You still find a lot of new watches being made with numerous moving parts, but these are now limited to the highest end of the price range and are very exclusive. Mass production techniques has simply made watch and clock making redundant in our modern society.

I don't have a problem with change and technology. I certainly wouldn't want to have to rely on a watchmaker or expert repairer every time my watch stopped keeping time. It's just not convenient and it would be much more expensive to have to have an ordinary watch repaired this way when I could otherwise just change its battery.

It's because of being an avid antique collector myself that I've been able to enjoy exposure to antique clocks and their working parts. This happened to me early in my antique collecting career when I had an old clock that stopped working. When I took it to be repaired a kind old man invited me to sit with him while he took it apart. I was amazed by the moving parts - the cogs, wheels and pins, pendulums and dials - that kept the time precisely without power. It just showed how clever our forebears have been.

Anyone can find an opportunity to gaze back at history through antiques. There are literally antique stores everywhere in the world and the internet is the perfect place to learn more if your town happens to be one of the five places on the planet without an antique shop. Looking inside antique clocks is one way to appreciate the past and understand how wonderful the present is and the future might be.

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As with many fashion trends in times gone by, the wrist watch was initially made hot by royalty -- especially Queen Elizabeth I who was given one in the second 1500s. The first widely worn watches were designed solely for girls and called wristlets.

Men of the late 19th century and early 20th century still kept track of time by employing a pocket watch frequently on a chain. They considered the wristlet a fashion trend that would, like any other trend, appear and disappear, and the watch would at this point never be considered by men as anything except a female bauble for ladies. The wrist-watch as a convenient way to keep time for men actually started as a wartime prerequisite. The English army in their battle with south africa in the boar War in the early 1900s strapped pocket watches to their wrist so they could hold their weapons at the same time.

The first wrist-watches for men were promoted to the regiment for men going into active service. Many of these influential men found the advantage of not fishing in a pocket for their watch necessary even after returning from the field. The flexible band pieces that attached to the open-faced watch made it easy to fix a leather strap, which kept the watch safely attached to the wrist.

Now wrist-watches were standard armed forces issue for the associated troops of World War I. In 1915, The Rolex Watch Company, formerly known as Wilsdorf & Davis, was set up. Rolex was recognized as a frontrunner in this research and received the first wrist-watch Chronometer award given out by the high-school of Horology in Bienne.

In the mid-1920s, following the war, men started to associate watches with the brave heroes who fought and no longer viewed them as for girls. Rolex grabbed on to this new image and continued through the 1950s to market watches in particular targeting their efforts to enticing men. Masculine-style watches were invented to be worn by men in sundry fields of work, and today are as commonly found in non-military environments as they're in the armed forces.

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