[PW] Pockets, watches and fobs

[John P. Dyson]

Quoting FERGUSON Timothy <TFERGUSON at goldcoast.qld.gov.au>:

>> Men who farmed or worked in construction, machine-shops and other
>> physical-labor jobs customarily carried pocket watches in their work
>> clothes. It was very easy to break a wrist watch in their work-related
>> activities.
>
> Were wrist watches even extant in period?  That is, "easy to break"
> aside, did men buying early Levi's even have this option?
>
> I know that women's wristlets were known but uncommon in the C19th,
> but I can't think of any widely available wristwatch until the First
> World War, and even then it's a sort of small cased watch in a
> leather cup, not a strapped watch like a modern wristwatch.  I could
> be wrong on this: it's just from memory from having a brother who
> collects Rolexes...


I should have made it clear that I was not speaking of the earliest 
date for jeans but of those work clothes worn by men of my 
grandfather's and father's generations: early 1900s to 1960s +. I was 
trying to suggest why they carried watches rather than wore them after 
there were watches to wear.

John Dyson