[palmotea]

> Yes the wrist watch, was a worker's item, because it enabled him to look at the time while his hands were doing something else. Gentlemen wore pocket watches. But that has nothing to do with the general idea of a watch or time-keeping device.

It looks like you're wrong. It sounds like it was an upper-class women's item, then a military officer's item, then demands of trench warfare mad them an enlistedman's item, and demobilization finally erased the gender coding.

At no point in this history is there division between workers and gentlemen like you describe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch#Wristwatches

[serbuvlad]

I was indeed wrong. Thanks for the info. And that makes the article even less correct. :)))