Stylish Men's Watches

Over the ages watches have been viewed as a status symbol by those who wear them. Their precision, elegance and convenience are just some of the attributes that clocks and watches represent. Often they are bought solely for their aesthetic looks and at other times they are bought because of their technical attributes like being accurate to the last second or even millisecond. This is what makes watches and clocks so desirable and in some cases they can command lots of money.
Here we will take a look at wristwatches, from their inaccurate primitive beginnings, through their evolution into today’s high precision timepieces.
It is interesting to think that many of the top wristwatch brands today have been around for more than a 100 years, while some have even been around as long as 250 years. I guess it takes some time to get good at making wristwatches.
People keeping track of time, has been in existence almost for as long as human civilization. The Egyptians first started using the 24 hour day in 2000BC they tracked time with water clocks. Water clocks work by measuring the amount of water that runs out of a water container over time. Water clocks are however very inaccurate. Shortly after that  hourglasses and candle clocks started to be used.
Around the sixteenth century BC they started to track time by using shadow clocks and a system of measuring time by the position of the stars was also developed.
Before the 15th century watches where too heavy for their owners to carry aroundwith them. In that period clocks used a combination of clockwork and gravity to keep track of time.
In the begining the wristwatch was though of as a women’s stylish fashion accessory. Men used pocket watches. Watch producers did not like wristwatches because they where too small for them to make really precise ones. This all changed in the 19th century when soldiers started using wristwatches, there not being time to look for a watch in your pocket during a battle. Claims that wristwatches where ‘girly’ where dropped and more men started buying them.
The first watches were made of steel, then later brass. They did not have balance springs and were very inaccurate. Many of them only had an hour arm not a minute one. Watches made a large leap in accuracy in 1704 when the French started using rubies in watches to improve accuracy.
In 1884, Greenwich, England was named the zero meridian, a worldwide accepted starting point for the world’s time zones. After 1900, advances in metallurgy improved the mechanisms, mostly because the balance spring was sensitive to temperature and position.
A more recent advance in watch technology has been from Casio. The have started making watches that automatically update their time from an atomic clock broadcasting centre. This makes these new wristwatches very accurate.