Impression of man's wristlet watch WW1 - by Jamie. See
original at:
http://rolexblog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/we-want-to-be-first-in-field-and-rolex.html
In a common
appearance
Of Khaki
uniforms, grew
An equally strange
sight,
Of soldiers
wearing
A watch on the
wrist.
With stigmas still
attached,
The first such
watches,
Of bracelets - with a time
Piece - were
purely made
For women; as in
1810.
When the Queen of
Naples
Accepted the prototype -
While all men
kept their
Timepieces safe in
a pocket,
Protected from
elements.
A wristwatch trend spread
With war's
breakout - seen
To be for
convenience -
In an opinion of
American
Retail
Association debate.
The issue raised,
was over
The concept of a
watch
Fixed to the wrist
being a fad
Or actually a
watch - opinion
Varied between members.
Evidence raised
in one
Corner believed the wrist
Watch would
'never be
An actual
timepiece' - others
Rejected effeminate
idea.
The firm of the
speaker,
Told how 400 had
sold
To the US
Government -
For uses by
cavalrymen -
Accusations were
absurd.
Many names of
wristwatch
Wearers, included
baseball
Player Christy
Mathewson,
Racing driver, Louis
Disbrow;
Even Theodore
Rosevelt Jnr.
Other wearers
pointed out,
Included New
York’s Mayor,
And that city's
Police
Commissioner -
all followed
Trait to wear a watchstrap.
The fad by 1915,
had already
Gone on for
twenty years -
With fact of
Impracticalities,
of pocket watches, in midst
Of battles - as
discovered in
Burma war, by
British Armies.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. The
Wrist-Watch. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 18 September. P.12. Col.7. Available
at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11869482/Daily-Telegraph-September-18-1915.html
[Accessed: 18 September 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication,
18 September 2015).
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