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Functions Customarily, watches provide the time of day, giving at least the hour and minute, and often the second. Many also provide the current date, and some (called “complete calendar” or

A watch is a portable timepiece intended to be carried or worn by a person. It is designed to keep a consistent movement despite the motions caused by the person’s activities. A wristwatch is designed

Origins Watches evolved from portable spring-driven clocks, which first appeared in 15th-century Europe.[citation needed] The first timepieces to be worn, made in the 16th century beginning in the German cities of Nuremberg and Augsburg, were transitional

Wristwatches Early wristwatch by Waltham with a metal guard over the crystal, worn by soldiers in World War I (German Clock Museum) Mappin & Webb‘s wristwatch, advertised as having been in production