Watches
Watches and their accessories have taken on many shapes, sizes, and styles since their invention. The convenience of a timepiece available wherever you are has made watches very popular through the ages. From chain-driven fusees to electronic watches that sync with our phones, timepieces are, well, timeless. Explore more about Watches in the pictorial glossary below.
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Albert chains are named after a style of watch chain Prince Albert wore during the Victorian period. Traditionally this style of watch chain has a bar on one end used to affix the chain...
Translated from the French meaning false watch, it was a Georgian affectation to appear to be wearing two watches. A fausse montre, being without a movement, was much less expensive than a watch but...
A hunting case – or hunter – refers to a pocket watch with a completely closed, metal cover to prevent the glass cover from breaking while the wearer is involved in hands-on labor such...
A hunting case – or hunter – refers to a pocket watch with a completely closed metal cover to prevent the glass cover from breaking while the wearer is involved in hands-on...
A pocket watch is the ancestor of the modern-day wristwatch. The watch did not have a wristband but was worn in a fob or vest pocket, usually on a fob chain.
There are two types of pocket watches. An open face and a hunter case. The open face only has one hinged operable outer case cover, on the back and the hunter case...
