It had a distinctive appearance with white hands and an Arabic numeral file, dark dial, and chromium-plated brass case. When discussing the history of MIL-SPEC-certified military watches, the Type A-11 is always mentioned.
Even to this day, companies like Bell & Ross continue to produce their own military watch. Thus, a military watch became popular amongst the masses. Military watches were so versatile in style and design. In fact, it became known as an accessory for rich young men. Surprisingly, there was a massive market for military watches during the post-war era. When World War II rolled in, military watches had better features such as luminous digits and easy-to-read dials. Leather straps proved to be comfortable in any kind of situation. Throughout the first world war, companies like Rolex, Doxa, and Gruen made efforts to manufacture their own version of a military watch. Thus, the first “wristwatch” was born.Īfter pocket watches, wristwatches became popular. To remedy this, the officer strapped a pocket watch to his wrist using a leather webbed cap to support it. As the story goes, a German naval officer couldn’t check the time from his pocket watch because both his hands were busy operating a machine gun. As time passed by, watchmakers continued to make efforts in perfecting the mechanisms of a watch.īy the end of the nineteenth century, soldiers started strapping their pocket watches on their wrists for convenience. But they weren’t used to tell time because these old pocketwatches were inaccurate in telling the time. Then, in the 17th century, men began to wear them in their pockets. Those watches used to run on a spring-based system to pull the hands around the dial to tell the right time. Rumor has it, Peter Heinlein, a clockmaker from Nuremberg, made the first watch in history. A Brief Historyĭuring the 15th century, watches were purely for show. But before this timepiece became a useful tool in a soldier’s wrist, let’s first dive into the short history of watches. It has a long and important history throughout the great world wars. A military watch is a subject of interest for many watch collectors.
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