Pocket watches - showing off time perfectly and reflecting respect

Used extensively in the past, pocket watches are still in use in various designations such as nursing, defence etc. These watches can be worn on the dresses with their attached chains which have hooks to hold in place. More often, the watches is in the pocket of dresses while the chain is visible to anyone. Whenever, users want to look at the time, they get the watch out of their pockets to glance at the time. The attached chains are sometimes made of precious materials such as gold and silver. Even the lids or the covering panel of the dials are made of valuable metals making them exceptionally valuable items.  

Pocket watches were the most popular devices to show the time until the 16 century. After that, they were gradually replaced with wristwatches. There were many highly decorated watches in the past. Most decorations appeared on the lids or on the covering apparatus or with the chains. Chains carried pendants which more often were personalized with the owners’ name or loved ones’ identities. In fact, these are the unique features of these types of watch that increase their value by many folds. The operational systems of the watches were mechanical and had to be worked manually.  

The ladies pocket watches were smaller than those for men. They were offered with beautiful designs and were mostly with small accessories such as tiny photo frames attached as lids or pendants. They are wearable as jewellery since most have fob like apparatus from which the   watches are worn on the dresses. Mostly the ladies watches do not have chains but it does not mean that female pocket watches are chainless. They also contain beautiful chains with wonderful intricate designs.  Some of these watches contained figures of the dial and the time indicating arms which were made of precious metals.  

Even though pocket watches are not in use as it was in the past, they are still used in certain segments of society. There are people who collect pocket watches as a hobby. Knowing how valuable these antique items are, many antique collectors make a great effort to find them. On the other hand, watch manufacturers still produce them and take orders to custom make them in whatever designs the customers need them. People who have inherited pocket watches rarely sell them any way. In this context, it is assumed that whatever number is left of ancient watches, they are still in the hands of the descendants of the first owners or with antique collectors.