threefire

In 1571, the Earl of Leicester presented Elizabeth I with a bracelet with clock timing function. On June 8, 1810, Abraham Louis Baoji, the first watch in history, was commissioned by the Queen of Naples, luxury replica watches the sister of Napoleon, to make the first watch N ° 2639. In 1868, Patek Philippe made a wrist strap clock for the Countess Koskowicz of Hungary, but this form of clock was not popular at that time. In 1880, the British Army began to order wrist watches for troops on a large scale and they were widely used in the subsequent Boer War.

 

From the middle of the 19th century, someone put a strap on a chronometer and put it on the wrist for use. It gradually improved, reduced its size, beautified its style, and developed into a watch.

 The popularization of watches will be postponed until the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1904, Louis Francois Cartier, a French jewelry merchant, received a complaint from Alberto Santos Dumont, a friend of the pilot, that it was very difficult to take the pocket watch out of his pocket when flying a plane. He hoped that he would help solve this problem so that he could see time on the flight. So Cartier came up with a method to tie the pocket watch to his hand with a belt and buckle to solve his friend's problem. And this pocket watch tied to the hand is today's watch.

 In 1911, Cartier officially commercialized this form of clock and introduced the famous Santos watch. Since then, watches have become popular.

 After a century of improvement, the Swiss made quartz clocks into quartz watches for the first time in 1967. After that, the watches developed from manual/automatic wind up to display time with quartz, electronic and other power, and mixed other simple functions, such as timing, moon phase, measuring pulse, etc; Modern watches have added more complex functions, such as electronic hand account, MP3, mobile phone, etc. At the same time, some watches have also become a kind of handwear. The focus is not on time display, but on their design, brand, material (such as precious metals and diamonds) and other characteristics. In addition, with the Replica Rolex development of technology, some manufacturers have begun to combine watches with technology, connecting to the Internet, to become new 3C products.