Quotes About Pocket watches

Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time.

Railroads brought about lasting social effects, as well. The companies' ruthless attention to keeping time impelled passengers to carry pocket watches,* and led to the eventual establishment of time zones.

I like watches from that era. Back then a watch was power. Not many people could afford one. The owner of a watch was a man who controlled time...chains and fobs were invented so that even when a man carried a watch in his pocket, you could still see he owned one