Wristwatches long counted as women’s jewellery: Breguet made the first for the Queen of Naples in 1810.

1810 · 1914 · apart: 104 years

Men stuck to pocket watches until World War I officers found them awkward to pull out in the trenches.

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• World War I1914–1918 · Sarajevo. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914 drew the great powers into a war of the Entente against Germany and its allies. It killed millions and brought down the German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian and Ottoman empires.

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