Watch wearer

Watch bearer as an advertising figure

"Watch bearers" and two peasant women in Triberg costume (around 1840)

Watch bearer is the name for a historical occupation of a trader who carried Black Forest clocks on backpacks or hats to areas that were sometimes far away.

history

From the glass wearers of the Black Forest, with the production of watches, the profession of watch wearer developed.

The glass wearers achieved great fame primarily through advertising in the 1950s and 1960s, with interest in watch wearers especially for tourism being revived.

literature

• Helmut Kahlert: 300 Years of the Black Forest Watch Industry , Katz 2007, ISBN 978-3-938047-15-6 .
• Herbert Jüttemann: The Black Forest Clock . Badenia-Verlag, Karlsruhe 2000, ISBN 978-3-89735-360-2 .
• Ekkehard Liehl, Wolf Dieter Sick (ed.): The Black Forest. Contributions to cultural studies . 4th edition. Publications of the Alemannisches Institut, 47, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1989.
• Berthold Schaaf: Black Forest clocks. 4th edition. G. Braun Buchverlag, Karlsruhe 2008. ISBN 978-3-7650-8391-4 .
• Gerd Bender: The watchmakers of the high Black Forest and their works. Volume 1 1998 and Volume 2 1978. Müller Verlag, Villingen.

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