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[Admin]

Here is an interesting history of the watch and the impacts of the new smart watches may have with traditional watches

 

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/19/how-the-watch-industry-can-save-itself/

 

 

[Garfly]

Some histories credit the early Brazilian aviator, Santos-Dumont, with bringing the wrist-watch to common use:

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Santos-Dumont

 

[Excerpt:] ... When flying, Santos-Dumont needed to measure time intervals. The wristwatch had been invented centuries earlier, but Santos-Dumont played an important role in popularizing its use by men in the early 20th century. Before him they were generally worn only by women as jewelery, while men favored pocket watches.

 

In 1904, while celebrating his winning of the Deutsch Prize at Maxim's Restaurant in Paris, Santos-Dumont complained to his friend Louis Cartier about the difficulty of checking his pocket watch to time his performance during flight. Santos-Dumont then asked Cartier to come up with an alternative that would allow him to keep both hands on the controls. Cartier went to work on the problem and the result was a watch with a leather band and a small buckle, to be worn on the wrist.

 

Santos-Dumont never took off again without his personal Cartier wristwatch, and he used it to check his personal record for a 220 m (730 ft) flight, achieved in 21 seconds aided by a large headwind, on 12 November 1906. The Santos-Dumont watch was officially displayed on 20 October 1979 at the Paris Air Museum next to the 1908 Demoiselle, the last aircraft that he built.

 

Cartier market wristwatches and sunglasses named after Santos-Dumont.

 

 

[ayavner]

Aviation wisdom used to be that the size of a pilot's watch is inversely proportional to that of his wedding tackle.

could be a problem if that's where you plan to wear it...