By admin1 on Feb 12, 2009 in CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES, Watches | 0 Comments
There is a designer brand of sunglasses called Police. Their sunglasses are cool and trendy.
But their product line is not just limited to sunglasses. Police also carry watches. Their watches are aimed towards young adults who are well acquainted with fashion.
Police watches are very trendy and cool. Just like their sunglasses, Police watches are of high quality. Police watches design is innovative and inspired by the youth.
Following are the new models of police watches:
The company releases new models of Police watches. For example, they just released their new Saratoga model. This police watch has a stainless steel case with a striking red dial. Aside from the normal watch face, this police watch also features 3 more dials for a chronograph, a millisecond hand and a date hand. This police watch is very stylish and is great for all occasions.
Another new Police watch is the D Matrix. The nice thing about this watch is its dual time feature. That means this police watch has two faces which shows two different time zones. A wearer would know what time is it in Japan while looking at his own time in the US.
By admin1 on Feb 12, 2009 in CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES, Watches | 0 Comments
The 17th century bore witness to the birth of portable watches. A century before that, clocks, which were rather too big to be anything near portable, were invented, paving the way for pocket watches to come out, widely accepted by the general public.
Following are the uses of Pocket watches:
Workers could keep track of their work schedules, and organize their days quite efficiently with the aid of pocket watches. Bosses could keep tabs on performance ratings and production deadlines without the need for wall clocks.
Travelling businessmen could now keep track of business transaction lengths, as well as define their travel time, and compensate for them on scheduled business meetings. The list of practical applications of pocket watches went on and on.
By the second half of the 19th century, a “real” need for pocket watches came. Train workers extensively used pocket watches, as during those times, train workers/railroad workers needed a synchronizing system to avoid deadly accidents and train crashes.
Time couldn’t have been a better synchronizing system, and pocket watches came to aid train/railroad workers in this aspect. Pocket watches eventually became part of regulation uniform for railroad/train workers.
By admin1 on Feb 11, 2009 in CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES, Watches | 0 Comments
When clocks were invented, people were thankful that they can now assign and determine the exact time of the day. However, clocks big and immovable. They need smaller clocks that they can carry around with them.
This resulted in to the invention of the pocket watch, the first portable clock. The pocket watch was made in the 16th century. This was also the time that the spring driven clock was manufactured.
The first pocket watches cannot be placed inside pockets at all! They were big, boxy and were used by hanging them like pendants. Only during the 17th century did the pocket watch become small enough to fit in a pocket.
Pocket watches were commonly used among people manning railroads and railway stations. They used it to avoid possible accidents due to workers not knowing the time each particular train will arrive or depart. But many people, such as military personnel, also used pocket watches.
Military pocket watches have the following:
A military pocket watch is designed just like any ordinary pocket watch. The military pocket watch display is analog, which means there are mechanical hands that tell the time. Just like a normal pocket watch, a military pocket watch has a long chain that is used to secure the military pocket watch to a waistcoat, lapel or belt.
By admin1 on Feb 11, 2009 in CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES, Watches | 0 Comments
It has been popularly known that pocket watches were popular from the 16th to the 19th century. However, it was in 1462 when the pocket watch was first known.
During that time, an Italian clockmaker named Bartholomew Manfredi gave a “pocket clock” to Marchese de Mantra.
German clockmaker Peter Henlein, who was also the inventor of spring powered clicks, officially invented the first known pocket watch in the early part of the 1500 ‘s. The first pocket watches sold in the market were made of iron. They were big and were carried around in the hand. Then in the 1600’s, iron was substituted for other materials such as steel and brass.
In the 19th century, America began selling ornate pocket watches for men. Men’s pocket watches became a favorite among the wealthy. During the 20th century, men’s pocket watches became essential accessories to formal and casual suits.
Today, men’s pocket watches are rarely used except as status symbols or collector’s items. Their practicality and popularity have been eclipsed by wristwatches. Surprisingly, the wristwatches were considered feminine and unmanly until the turn of the 20th century.
By admin1 on Feb 10, 2009 in CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES, Watches | 0 Comments
They say that men are not that obsessed with fashion the way women are, well at least not to the same extent. They consider other things more important than worrying about the newest trend in fashion.
However, even if men don’t really take the time to read a latest GQ issue, there are a number of things that men can do to express a fashion sense.
The most essential “thing” that every man must have is an excellent men watch.
Men watches are frequently underestimated accessories. Men watches have turned into more than simple devices that tell time, men watches are mirrors of a man’s personality. Quality famous Men watches are the fastest ways of emanating confidence and successful image.
Any man can buy inexpensive Timex watches all through their life, which are actually among the category of famous Men watches particularly for sports. However, what they should really be doing is investing in one remarkable timepiece that lasts a lifetime.
Every man “needs” a watch –it is simply an important accessory. One can put away those thumb-rings and gold chains, but they just can’t eliminate the need for a watch. Quality men’s famous watches may be expensive, but men watches will definitely be worth it in the long run.
By admin1 on Feb 10, 2009 in CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES, Watches | 0 Comments
In the past, it used to be that mechanical pocket watches were the gentry’s possessions and wrist watches the lady’s.
Wristwatches by large are considered feminine, being smaller than mechanical pocket watch and usually attached with rather womanly leather.
Mechanical pocket watches are dominant for several centuries, as early as the 14th century (as evidence point out) until the last mid century, around 1950 where locomotives are still on widespread usage.
Following are the features of mechanical pocket watches:
Mechanical pocket watches are strapless personal watch that is normally carried in the pocket, hence the name as opposed to the wrist. They are also normally linked into a chain whose end is fastened to a waistcoat, on the lapel or on the belt.
Traditionally, they are analog watches, having hands that display time but during the last century and now, digital and electronic varieties are also available. The reason that they are also mechanical is the absence of an alternative power source in the past; traditionally being clockwork (wound types).
By admin1 on Feb 9, 2009 in CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES, Watches | 0 Comments
In the past, mechanical clock movements are so abstract, so complex, and so beyond human comprehension that many seem to consider these as sorcery.
Mechanical clock movements (watches especially) are so composite that those individuals with horological skills can only make the most perfect, fine tuned design, and make tons of wealth out of it.
Just like a good winemaker or a boot maker, watch and clock makers are born out of strong tradition.
Following parts are involved in mechanical clock movements:
In fact, such aspect is taken so much as a pride that you’ll never see an electrical mechanical clock movement or a quartz mechanical clock movement on all high end watches, even though almost any non mechanical clock movement are several times more accurate.
A Swiss Prestige watchmaker Blancpain, for instance, followed a slogan in conceit that say they will never make nor have produced a watch of quartz mechanical clock movements.
Though mechanical clock movements are overly complex, all of them can be identified with essential parts. There is the motor section that usually houses the mainspring, a coiled piece of wire that’s purely responsible of the mechanical clock movements, and the ratchet wheel and the transmission wheel.
By admin1 on Feb 9, 2009 in CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES, Watches | 0 Comments
A few decades ago, two sales representatives named Richard Timbo and Barry Cohen established a company named The Richard Barry Marketing Group.
While establishing the company, they discovered a unique illumination technology that was originally produced by a Swiss manufacturer.
The duo figured out that the technology can be applied into a line of Swiss watches. They call this technology Luminox which means “light night” in Latin.
Sales for Luminox watches were slow at first. Then, the US Navy SEALS asked the company to make specially made watches for their personnel for use in their night missions. Nine months were spent in developing a special watch that could meet the exacting demands of the Navy SEALS.
In 1999, Luminox received word from Edwards Air Force Base that they were impressed with the performance of the watch in the Navy. They then asked Luminox if they can design an illuminated watch specifically for them. The Luminox watches were to be used by fighter and bomber pilots who fly their aircraft into the night.
Since then, Luminox received huge orders from the military, specifically the Navy and the Air Force. The company even entered a contract with aircraft manufacturer Lockheed Martin to acquire a special license that enabled them to produce watches for some of their unique aviation properties.
By admin1 on Feb 8, 2009 in CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES, Watches | 0 Comments
Watches these days are no longer regarded as functional timepieces but have evolved to become one of the essential fashion accessories for both men and women.
For ladies in particular, long before the introduction of wristwatches, the famous ladies watches were mainly worn as a pendant with long chains that hung around the neck.
Over the years, the fashion of trendy ladies watches has eventually developed to adorn the dainty wrists of ladies. There are a plethora of stylish selections of ladies watches readily available today, in every possible shapes and sizes and every imaginable colors that would make any watch enthusiast smile in sheer excitement.
Since ladies watches nowadays are basically considered part of the jewelry collection, every woman should have at least two types that can be used on a regular basis to complement different fashion ensembles: dress watches and utilitarian watches.
While you might be astounded with the astonishing array of ladies watches to choose from, it’s best to invest in some of the famous ladies watches with designer brands that usually offer a perfect compromise of both form and function. This may seem like a fit of extravagance, but ladies watch is most definitely one of the sound investments that every woman should consider.
By admin1 on Feb 8, 2009 in CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES, Watches | 0 Comments
Watches are devices for timekeeping that displays the exact time of the day and oftentimes, the day, date and year. In the past, they are in the form of pocket watches which are rarely carried today. Now, watches are more than timepieces. They are part of fashion.
Following are the types of watches that you can choose:
The first among types of watch is the mechanical watch. These types of watches are some of the most beautiful and complicated watches in the world.
Usually, these types of watch are quite expensive due to the materials that compose them and the precise workmanship needed for manufacturing each watch. These types of watch are most often regarded as jewelry than timepieces.
This types of watch consists of three main parts. The escapement is a mechanism that controls and limits the unwinding of the watch. The second part, balance wheel, provides contact movement based on inertia. Finally, the tourbillon cancels or reduces the bias to the timekeeping of gravitational origin.
It is important not to drop or subject mechanical watches to hard impact. The mechanisms inside are aligned very delicately and can easily dislodge themselves upon impact.