Josh Clark

Not we're back.

We're all of a sudden headed toward watches, everyone.

And I mean, this, again, could be an entire episode on watches.

So we're not going to get too in the weeds.

But.

Those spring-based clocks, of course, that spring was kind of the key in the 15th century, eventually involved to wearable clocks like Flava Flav.

And then eventually we got to watches by the 16th century.

Of course, we're talking about pocket watches initially, kind of thing you hang from your vest or your belt or something.

And it was a real fashion statement at the time.

But as that technology progressed, they got smaller and smaller.

Maybe not more accurate, but just smaller enough to where you could finally put one on your wrist if you were the Countess of Hungary in 1868.

Yeah, or one of Emperor Wilhelm II's German naval officers in 1880.

Right.

Because before that, watches were women's jewelry.

That's what they were considered.

Wilhelm II said, now it's going to be a military gear.

And from World War I, which came a little later, the American and other Allied troops who came back home were like, you should see these hand clocks these guys have.

And those became very quickly starting around the 20s fashionable in the United States and I think Great Britain.

And in the 20s, because they became fashion, all of a sudden there was a lot of attention on hand clocks and they became a lot of innovations just kind of started to build very quickly starting in the 20s.

Yeah.