Timex Corporation is a large and conventional producer of wristwatches and was founded in 1854 as “Watebury Clock”, located in the Naugatuck Valley (Connecticut, USA). During the nineteenth century the Valley was well-known for its various resident watch manufacturers and consequently for a long time well-known as the “Switzerland of America”. [...]

From pocket watch to a fashion accessory. What was once, in the earliest years of portable watches, considered to be unsuitable for men and only for women, has developed nowadays into a fashion utensil that everyone has. In the meantime, the wristwatch is no longer just a tool to tell which time it is. [...]