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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Armed forces watches, as their name suggests, were designed to be used in the armed forces. The 1st military watches were naval pieces, chronometers that worked OK for their purposes, but as other branches of the army - aviation especially - made major technical advances round the time of the second World War, accurate measurement of the seconds became vital.

As the old chestnut goes, 'necessity is the mother of invention,' and Navigator ( often called 'Pilot' ) watches were born. In the Navigator watch design, the seconds bezel allowed the pilot to synchronize the second hand with a correct reference time before takeoff, and to make manual corrections to radio time signals while in flight, thus dumping any 'chronometer inaccuracies' and the navigational blunders that would result.

In World War I seconds continued to be crucial in both military technology and armed forces watches. The feature that allowed for synchronization between two timepieces - continued to enhance and advance. These watches were worn on the outside of a flight jacket or on the navigator's thigh.

The Germans also added antimagnetic protection to their chronometers. Within another major Axis power, Seiko produced a fantastic number of military watches for the Japanese Imperial armed forces and Navy. These watches averaged around 49mm in diameter.

As the times of WWII faded into memory and the strained peace of the 'Cold War' became fact, army budgets and army technology boomed. Watchmakers rose to the call by planning an instrument worthy of going into battle with humankind's strongest weapon. Those were the excellent times of the division watch, though no definite design house can claim full credit for the steps made in that time.

Cold War-era military watches were much bigger than the typical US citizen navigators before them. Averaging 36mm in diameter, the development of these watches was moved to Switzerland and the Swiss armed forces watch companies who came to the task with centuries' old reputes for precision.

Like those before them, these Navigators also featured a matte black dial marked with white Arabic numbers 1-12, and with white indices. The new designs didn't have white numbers at cardinal three, six, 9, and 12. Another new addition was a shatterproof Perspex acrylic crystal, which protected its large 12 ligne movement from magnetic fields.

These hand-wound watches were planned to be water-resistant to 20 feet, including water-resistance under low pressure at operational altitudes, and added a naval dimension to the regular military watch.

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