Tailcoat watch
A tailcoat watch is a special pocket watch that differs from conventional pocket watches due to its smaller size and particularly flat design.
Construction
Lépine cases are mainly used for tailcoat watches . Specimens with a spring lid are rare. Since the classic pocket watch movements are usually too big to be built into tails with their smaller size, manufacturers usually fall back on movements that were originally developed for wristwatches. This can be seen above all by the second hand - if available - that comes from the center instead of, as is usually the case with pocket watches, on a small sub-dial at the six (open face) or nine (savonette).
The design of the clocks is usually simple. They are built as two- or three-hand watches; other complications are not common. Gold or white gold , more rarely stainless steel , is often used for the case .
use
If the Convention is strictly interpreted , no wristwatch may be worn with tails. The tailcoat watch got its name from the item of clothing of the same name , in whose tight-fitting vest only a particularly flat watch can be comfortably worn. Tailcoat watches made of stainless steel are primarily intended as everyday watches that are worn with a jacket instead of tails . The watch is attached to the left lapel by means of a button chain in the buttonhole and kept in the breast pocket.
Individual evidence
- ^ Bernhard Schmeltzer: Bags and wristwatches . Self-published, Duisburg 1992. ISBN 3-9801360-5-1
- ^ Metall, Volume 17, Metall-Verlag GmbH (1963), p. 366
literature
- Lukas Stolberg: Lexicon of the pocket watch . Carinthia Verlag, Klagenfurt 1995. ISBN 3-85378-423-2