The first wrist watch was born in flying contest

Design change: Square Watch existed in different from circular pocket watch. 

 

In 1868, Patek Philippe made a watch for a Hungarian family lady, this watch is currently known as human history's first watch. But this watch decorative function is greater than the timing function, the designer at that time never thought revolution that people changed pocket watch into wrist watch and wearied it in the wrist would greatly influence human's life. 

in 1904, Brazil adventurer Alberto Santos Dumont living in Paris wanted to fly in a circle around the center of Paris by light aircraft in the 30 minutes. But in the first attempt, Dumnot did not succeed, he slowed 40 seconds. Obviously, the 40 second can't enforce him to give up, and Dumont thinks, it is all because he isn't convenient pulling out his watch to calculate time. Therefore, in preparation for the second challenge of the time, he found his friend Louis Cartier, wanted to know how quickly and conveniently watch time. Then Louis Cartier found Edmond Jaeger, two people jointly created this watch at that time. By 1911, Cartire decided to make the wrist watch named Santos in mass production, this has become in a real sense the first watch of the world.

 

Mass production of the watch absolutely is very important, but another important reason why santos become the first wrist in history is that it entirely is different from pocket watch and jewelry watch. Because the first so-called watch mostly is modified by pocket watch, some people even directly tied pocket watch on the wrist, and the shape of them is circular. While the Santos with four square shape design make that it is no longer a pocket watch derivatives and it has its own independent status and uses. It is the new area of watches world.

 

Along with the appearance of Santos, plus rising of geometric symmetry pattern brought by Art Decoin, square watch quickly become fashionable. In the early twentieth Century, almost every watch brand introduced square watches with themselves’ style. Among them, the most representative is Reverso introduced by Jaeger-Lecoulter in 1932. As everyone knows, this watch was designed for applying to British officer guarding in India. The officers want Jaeger-Lecoulte to design a wrist watch, when they play polo it would not claim them attention because they worried about wrist watch damaged. At that time the entire watch mirror is made of glass, solid material such as sapphire, crystal has not appeared. At the same time, in order to distinguish with pocket watch, Jaeger-Lecoulter came up with a square "flip" .This Reverso watch once again consolidated square watch's status. so that at that time, A opinion become deeply ingrained in the people's mind: "the pocket watch is round, the wrist watch is square".