Who Wore the First Watch? | SideQuest Animated History
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Who doesn't love a stylish watch? Horology is fascinating, but when did it start, and who wore the first watch? In today's SideQuest, we'll explore the history of timekeeping to figure this out!
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0:00 - Watches
0:09 - James Bond?!
0:22 - Just kidding, more watches!
2:18 - Holzkern
3:13 - Even more watches!
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Further Reading:
“The Mastery of Time” by Dominique Flechon - www.google.com/books/edition/... - บันเทิง
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I just realized I'm subbed to Side Quest the Mario party channel and you SideQuest the history youtuber
i thought the song dynasty of china made the first mechanical clock
Hey Mr SideQuest. I could not help but notice that you put some video in your advertisement, my friend. Thank you very much. What a sublime detail
This video had a bit too much ad, I really hope he read the comments and took the criticism
Am more of a pocket watch kind of guy myself , but I always wondered about this very topic.
I hope he gets the message about the double ad. A sponsor slot at the end to pay the bills is more than fair, but two slots in a 6 minute video is excessive and makes it feel like an ad
Makes you wonder if the whole video topic was based on the ad
Just get sponsorblock plugin, it auto skips all sponsorships
@@Egrodo1 exactly
I was coming on to say exactly this!
Yeah, this was 50% ad, with a scant few facts thrown in...
It bugs me that this video doesn’t actually answer the question, instead it just talks about the history of timekeeping with a long ass ad for a watch brand shoved in the middle (and is probably why this video was made in the first place).
The proto pocket watch referenced in the video was made by a German Watchmaker called Peter Henlein around the late 16th century.
The first two major advancements in portable watch design which allowed for the slimmer and more accurate portable watch movements were know today were made in the mid to late 17th century by a few different people, most notably the balance spring and wheel (the wheel which goes back and forth in a watch to regulate the movement of the pallet fork) and the lever escapement (the most common form of movement escapement). That’s also when we start to see names like Breguet pop up and the ‘modern’ era of horology began.
The first actual wrist watch, which I feel captures the essence of the question “who wore the first watch” was a wrist watch made by Breguet for the queen of Naples in 1810. It’s worth noting that the concept of wearing a watch on the wrist was predominantly a feminine thing as the movements of the time were too delicate and affected by motion to be worn every day as a modern watch would allow, they were mainly fancy jewellery pieces (what’s changed lmao).
Pocket watches reigned supreme as the functional way of keeping time until the late 19th century when military needs dictated that a wrist worn watch would be infinitely more practical for tactical timing and use on the battlefield, but these early wrist watches were simply just pocket watches with a strap on them, this meant they weren’t the most accurate things in the world and the aforementioned problem of damage and inaccuracy were common.
This began to change in the early 20th century when characters such as Louis Cartier started to design watches with movements designed to be worn on the wrist. I personally argue that the first person to ever wear something approaching what we would define as a wrist watch was Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos Dumont, who wore a watch designed by Cartier in the early 20th century. This shift was also brought along by people such as Hans Wilsforf (who started Rolex) who started pushing the concept of watches worn on the wrist instead of held in the pocket. That’s why Rolex is so ‘young’ in the watchmaking world, Hans was super infatuated with the idea of wrist worn watches being the way of the future and pushed for movement manufacturers to develop movements with wrist wearing first and foremost in mind. Funnily enough, the first Wilsdorf and Davis watches were looked at as similar to wearable technology today, a weird fad thing that wouldn’t really take off.
From there, the three major leaps forward in horological design were the first waterproof watch in 1926 by Rolex (it was called the Rolex Oyster, so that’s why all Rolexes are called ‘oyster’), the first automatic movement in 1922 by John Harwood (NOT Rolex, but they did perfect the design into what we know today) and the first Incabloc shock protection movements in 1934.
Thank you for this
Thanks mate for the comment
Thank you brother
I wish I could "like" thus twice
Who wore the last watch?
Wow, you took what could have been an awesome topic with a huge amount of genius inventions to explain, and turned it into a short list of totally unexplained inventions serving to barely separate 2 ad reads in 6 minutes.
Sundials get all the love, but the first worn "watch" was probably a _horologium nocturnum_ , which could be worn as a pendant. You lined up the pole star in the central hole and moved an arm to line with Kochab to get your local time. They also could be used to predict tides.
Oh, you mean the Little Dipper. That’s what the Anglosphere calls Kochab.
Also, that wouldn’t really count any more than an astrolabe is a watch.
The earliest "hour glass" was a bag of sand with a hole in it.
The reason we don't see hour "GLASS" before a certain time is due to the glass part of it. It was hard enough to form glass as it is, but forming it into an hour glass shape that you could see through that also had a very precise diameter so it was useful to let sand pass at a steady rate was very difficult and expensive in the early days.
Again, a bag of sand was much easier and a scale that would, by how much it had moved, tell you the time.
And of course, delayed mechanisms used bags of sand as well. A delayed trigger for a ballista aimed at a Chinese escape artist for example.
I would like to add that the Athenian assembly had an hour glass without glass during the Golden age of Athenian democracy
Nicely done as always, but this episode felt more like a high-quality ad than an actual SideQuest episode. Makes you wonder if the sponsor came first or the idea for the video. Oh well, hoping this isn't going to be a trend moving forward.
Mentioning the sponsor twice was a bit too much. Otherwise love your content ❤
Double ad? I just saw the one for watches. I wonder what came first, the sponsor offer or the video idea.
@@Alec0124I'd guess the sponsor
I meant that they mentioned the sponsor in the video at two separate points.
@@Alec0124
Nearly a third of this video was an advertisement. 😬 The watch company and Patreon. I don’t begrudge him for making money. I love his videos. This seems a bit egregious, though.
I like your Videos and Your style, but i have to say, the ad Part was too mutch and too long for your videos. Interesting Video-idea, Even if its a sponsor-related, but more Information and less ad would be better i think. This way it feels like an idea by the sponsor, done with Not that mutch more reason than that. If i remember candels with marks where a thing to measure Time too, and at least looking up the First wrist Watch would be nice Too, even a better Connection to the sponsor if You want to See it that way. I hope this helps a Bit, keep up the great work, i like The Channel a lot :)
Huzzah, another *timely* episode of Side Quest!
I can't wait to WATCH this!
Get it
GET IT
@@Chris-wy1whI'm gonna need a minute to get it
I've been looking forward to this
this is hilarious at three different levels.
@@arthurmorgan8184 Yeah, I think you need another MINUTE
Fun fact: The name "watch" comes from when sailors would use the Pomander watch during their "watch". A Pomander watch was also known as a "Nuremberg egg".
Very nice.
@@Beencheeling I'm full of useless information. 😅
@@nasis18 Yup
The architect who made the angel was goated ngl
I hate to be that guy, that you forgot candle clocks, used in Asia from 500 AD to the 10th century, some would last for multiple days and accurately marked the time regardless of weather or time of day, making them a major improvement over sundials for keeping accurate time for astromers and night watchmen.
Nah you love to be that guy
It's about time sidequest uploaded again
I love your animation style! You have such a creative way of teaching a topic. Nicely done video!
The first wrist watch was ordered by Brazilian polymath Santos Dummont, the first man to fly an aeroplane, when he needed the pocket watch to be more fixed in his arm so he could chronometer his own times. By the way, technically Santos Dummont's aeroplane is technically the first exoskeleton considering how he would connect the whole thing to different parts of his body and would control the plane as an extension of his own body.
Don’t forget to mention that this watch was made by Santos Dummont good friend Cartier
@@kevinwajima Proving why Cartier had enough time on his hand . . . to explore Canada
The first men's wristwatch, women had been wearing them since the early 1800's.
"As far as history knows, the very first wristwatch was designed for the Queen Caroline Murat of Naples in 1810 by Abraham-Louis Breguet."
I'm just starting to wander if they get a sponsor that fits their video perfectly or.......If they make a video because they found a sponsor.
a bit of a shame as I really enjoy(ed) their content
They fit the sponsor
This
The 1250s are absolutely not the "Early Renaissance." That's just the Middle Ages, man. I don't know why people are so hesitant to attribute genius to the people of the Middle Ages. Medieval times were a period of astounding development in Europe!
And even more so outside of it, especially in the Islamic world, which is why this time period is called the Islamic Golden Age. As a medieval historian, I think it's long past time to do away with the misleading and inaccurate idea of the Dark Ages. While some use the term to describe the lack of historical records and/or societal collapse in the 5th-7th centuries, the term has given the general public the notion that from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the Renaissance, humanity was compromised of illiterate unwashed peasants living in mud hovels. Sorry for my rant, it's one of my biggest pet peeves!
@@Cara-39 No worries, dude, it's a pet peeve of mine too. Even if you limit the "Dark Ages" moniker to just Christendom--thereby ignoring the, as you say, efflorescence of Islamic civilization--that strikes against the fact that the Eastern Romans/Byzantium were doing quite well and not in any sort of "Dark Age."
This comment section is peak Dunning-Kruger. Where should I start? NO, the Middle Ages did not have "astounding" development lmfao. 😂🤣 They were so bad in this regard, take any two centuries after and they will have the same, if not more development in a fifth of the time. Or take any three centuries in Classical or Late Antiquity for that matter.
@@Cara-39 1. The Middle Ages are only valid in a European context, as from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the Renaissance.
2. The Islamic Golden Age was just the first century of Abbasid rule, lmao 😂. Anything beyond it renders the concept of a golden age have no meaning anymore. Some would say even less, like until the Mutazilist persecutions or the Fourth Fitna.
@@Taiyama2 I've spent too much time already on a nut head like you. Just search the Byzantine Dark Ages. 630-800.
this video is an ad for holzkern
great work SideQuest and team. loved watching this video.. no pun intended ;)
Finally! another wonderful SideQuest video to keep me nourished.
Thank you!
Good show old chap! Delightful and informative as always
Great work, as always. I look forward to your new vids. Thank you for all the effort you put in
Glad your back!
Keep up the good work, SideQuest! Looking forward to whatever you cover next, it’s always very interesting. :)
The animation is always top quality - absolutely love it!
It feels like it's been an eternity, welcome back.
Can´t wait to *Watch* this Video!
What a poorly presented mash of facts. You mentioned that the hourglass was the next big chronometric leap after sundials but say that there is no evidence of them prior to 1338. Then later in the video you guys go over several devices from the 1200s that are obviously represent large leaps.
While I love your animation style, after each video I'm struck with the feeling that the only reason the video was made was to serve as a commercial for the sponsor
I felt the same way, a double sponsor slot in a 6 minute video is excessive and I feel like there was more to say. For example, the first wrist worn watch
Yeah this one was pretty weak
Yesss they uploaded
Thank you for your work :)
This was a very interesting look into something I've never thought of. Nice video.
Two ad reads in a 6~ minute long video? bruh really?
Why hasn't this channel blown up yet? Given its cheeky artwork and great content, it should be having a lot more views!
Yay, new episode
I did not expect to see my great-great-great-...-grandfather, Peter Henlein, in a SideQuest video. So cool!
This was like one long ad
It's back baby
3:20 "sometime mid renaissance" animation shows 1250s 😂
Great vid, no big deal, just having a laugh
Missed ya!
This entire episode was practically an advertisement 🙄🫤
Hmmm i wonder who sponsored this video. 🤔
it feels as i watched an ad,please don't destroy your channel.
Always fun and excellent !
Love this channel
Finally, an episode about Dave Timex!
He's back
I could see the hour glass being worn around the neck as a necklace
Filled with white sand? Might not be an hour glass.
I still don’t know who had the wrist watch.
A question I never knew I needed to ask, but a question I now needed answered.
This feels like an extended ad.
I'm from central Italy, whenever I see your update I always scream "waa bello bello"👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Where?
@@genovayork2468 near Rome
this was a very intresting video very nice
A very interesting question I legit never thought about before
Watches are my favorite. Great Video
When the world needed him the most, he returned
He never left dumb dumb
For a watch advertisement
When this comment was needed the least, it appeared
Yes thank you SideQuest for bringing us the gift of a short list of totally unexplained inventions serving to barely veil 2 ad reads in 6 minutes.
I really like this channel! It makes me feel like im 7 again.
Keep on good sir!
Im just in *time* to watch a new Sidequest video
Thanks!
Watching side quest is an investment
Hes evolving into British Vsauce
And I am totally here for it
you just wanted to put the animation of the 007 didn't you? you did it well
Video feels like its missing the second half
I don't mind ads in videos, and you certainly give your own flair to them, but considering the length of the video, don't you think it was a bit too much? To matters worse, it feels like the whole theme of the video was thought up just so you could take this ad. Do better, and don't take advantage of your audience because right now it kinda feels that you are...
The joke at the end cracked me
Me going to CIA headquarters to get my free watch :
(I am on their watch list)
Great video Sidequest. Is there any other channels or content creators you know that issimiliar to rhis channel?
Thanks guys
I remember reading about the clock that was given to king charlemagne in 9th or 10th century by the abbasid ruler.
interesting, thx
A question I wanted the answer to that I never thought to ask.
Instead of taking a break from the subject to talk about your sponsors I feel like all this was was a long advertisement
Along with an elephant whose name in Arabic meant “the father of intelligence,” Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid presented Holy Roman emperor Charlemagne with a mechanical clock powered by water in 807. At noon a weight dropped, bells sounded, and twelve brass horsemen emerged from twelve windows.
No sponsors in the middle of the video. Do what you used to.
Interesting Video. FWIW I purchased my most recent watch pretty much to warn me if I walk too far away from my phone. 😁
Two ads. Six minute video. We had so much hope for you.
why does this open with essentially a Family Guy cutaway gag?
5:50 my neighbor will charge the clock within 5 minutes of “internet research “
When there is more ad content than actual content.... sigh
2 TH-cam adds and 2 add segments in the video to then finish of with a patreon mention.
That’s a lot of commercial stuff guys
That Mickey watch rocks
For anyone wondering. The answer is Alberto Santos Dumont.
The disturbing thing is the it probably isn't actually 2023 considering that the age of the world is an approximation and humanity didn't record time for the first couple thousand years of its life.
It’s 2023 AD. Or Anno Domini meaning after Christ’s birth. We’ve been tracking the time since Jesus Christ came to earth.
Dammm that intro was nicee
it drives me nuts that the minute hand on the clock at 1:32 is making serverals turns in one hour
Hey! It's Mr. Peanut again!
Some say Cartier wore the first wrist watch. If so, he had enough Time on his Hand to explore Canada!🤭🤭
i had to find ur account again in my subscriptions cuz my alghorithm wasn't showing me ur vids anymore -.-
You should be cast as the nee James bond in the next movies. I wonder who your bond girl would be
The lack of a mention of Santos Dumont is appalling.
I'm STILL waiting for a wrist-sundail.
SideQuest u missed India's achievements in Time. Measured through Solar and Luna Calendar. India aslo had large sundial in Rajasthan. i am dissapointed
😂😂😂😂😂
So this is just a big commercial then...
Are you guys on Nebula?
Holy shit this video came out after i buy a new watch so coincidence
How do you create these videos?
I am here and I am Inevitable
Somehow, the internet and cellphones have managed to kill industry after industry, yet the watchmakers keep on ... um, I guess I have to say, ticking.
A clickbait title for a 6 min ad? C'mon SideQuest, you're better than this
Just in time! 😂
I'm sorry, I'll see myself out