Pocket watches: the new and classy gift item

Pocket watches became highly popular post the World War I and since then it has just seen amazing transitions in itself. Variant styles in its dial, chain, making material, etc. has now made it one of the most sought after watches to possess. The chain attached to it lets the protagonist hang it around the waistcoat, belt loophole or a lapel, which additionally helps preventing it from being misplaced. Fasteners were therefore very intricately designed to smoothly slide around the buttonholes or in and around the jacket.

Pocket watches were essentially made out of a diversified range of raw materials, giving it one of the most stylish looks possible. Where men’s collection primarily contained silver and gold as the base, women’s collection was majorly embedded with jewels. Dials of these watches had several scenes depicted in it, largely based on what the target market it was being designed for.

Pocket watches also, like the rest, have various types to attract a large number of consumerism in this modern era. The markets today are flooded with a gigantic range of these kinds of watches from around the world, courtesy globalization and the ease in imports and exports now. The need of the hour is to simply spend time on jotting down what are your requirements and hence, buy one for yourself in accordance to the same. Marketplaces these days have a plenty of varieties. The most running pocket watches today are classified under four categories.

Segregated on the basis of types of pocket watches’ case, watch movements, jewel movements and adjusted movements; one can glance through and get their choicest design. For instance, open face and hunter case watches. Similarly, key wind; stem wind; lever set; pin set and movements alike form another category.

Sadly, the popularity of pocket watches declined with the upcoming of the age of wrist watches. Being superseded by wrist watches yet doesn’t make it any lesser than the former. Falling in the lap of the famous adage, “Old if Gold”, pocket watches will never get faded away. Furthermore, we have some live examples in our television industry to prove the above. BBC’s ‘Doctor Who’ is one of the most famous one.

Jump into the art of embracing the fashions of the Victorian Era and carry a pocket watch yourself to feel the enigma around your aura. Look through the various shops dealing in pocket watches and grab one for yourself today.