A watch is not that just to show you the time and sometimes the day, calendar date, month and year. In past, they often took the form of pocket watches, which today are wrist worn. In present use, watch is actually a contraction of wristwatch, a most popular style of timekeeping device worn on wrist.
Mobile telephones, which have become ubiquitous today, are meant not only for the affluent but for the whole. When not in use, it has become common to rely on them for time keeping, effectively making the Mobile phone serve the function of a watch and that is how Mobile telephones become pocket watches too.
How Watches Come into Existence?
A wristwatch, fixed firmly with a watchstrap or watchband are often made up of leather or metal. Invented by Patek Philippe in 19th century, initially was considered a woman’s fashion accessory. It was not until the beginning of the 20th century when the Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos-Dumont, who had difficulty checking the time while in his first aircraft, asked his friend Louis Cartier for a watch. Cartier gave him a leather-band wristwatch which Dumont had with him for longtime. Cartier being a popular figure in...