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A History of Time on the Wrist

How did timekeeping become an everyday object of work, coordination, fashion and identity? Follow documented watches from pockets to wrists, factories to expeditions, quartz production to mechanical craft and connected devices.

8 chapters · 1 hr 31 min reading

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Chapters

  1. 01

    Before the wristwatch

    11 min
  2. 02

    Making watches at scale

    12 min
  3. 03

    From pocket to wrist

    11 min
  4. 04

    Coordinating modern life

    12 min
  5. 05

    Watches for particular tasks

    11 min
  6. 06

    Quartz changes the industry

    12 min
  7. 07

    Mechanical watches after necessity

    11 min
  8. 08

    Connected time and the historical object

    11 min