Watches

    • Price range: $5 for basic analog watch, thousands for high end fashion watches
    • Watch face usually made from plastic, glass or metal
    • Watch face affixed to wrist on a band, made from: Leather, cloth, plastic, metal, hemp
    • Usually powered by small battery
    • Many watches also tell the date
    • Prior to the wristwatch there was the pocket watch
    • First known watch was used in the 15th century
  • Watches are portable timepieces that are usually worn on the wrist. The main types are analog, which mechanically moves and tells the time via two hands on a clock face, and digital, which electronically marks the passage of time on a digital screen. Some watches worn on the body are pocket watches, sometimes attached to clothes with a chain.

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