Antique Pocket Watches

Pocket Watches you find today most likely will be gold in color, and round. They fit in your pocket, and have a wind at the top, a chain, and ofcourse a way to open the pocket watch, something akin to opening a coin purse, or even a fancy necklace. The Watch was first created in the 1600's and was said to originated because of Charles The II who fancied wearing waist coats, a piece of clothing which also had a pocket for a Pocket Watch. These Watches were not originally worn in a pocket but instead were fashioned around one's neck.

Glass wasn't fitted for this type of watch until 1610. The same type of timekeeping mechanism that you would find in clocks of that era, were used for the pocket watch. Of course this mechanism did not fit completely into the watch and was later updated. The Fusee, a coin shaped pulley, was made to fit into the antique pocket watches and thus keep the watch leveraged. The spring of the clock would now unwind properly and keep it's momentum.

Railroad workers also used these watches, now referred to as an "antique railroad pocket watch". These watches would prove to be useful at keeping the time. An incident once occurred before the use of these pocket watches which caused a wreck in Kipton Ohio on April 19, 1891. The Pocket Watches, now antique but at one time original, would help ensure the safety of all those involved in railroads.