What period do most of these come from?

The mass sits in the 1950s and 1960s, with 463 dated listings in the 60s and 396 in the 50s. The 1930s and 40s follow, then the 1920s and 1910s. Anything before about 1910 is a handful of pieces rather than a group. Four listings fall in the 1900s, and the single Victorian entry is a Chester-hallmarked 18k chronograph pocket watch dated 1881.

Are pocket watches included in this category?

Yes, though they are a minority. Four titles in five say wrist or wristwatch, and the pocket watches run as a thin seam through the rest. Sampled examples include silver half-hunters, an 18k London-cased watch and a Waltham dated 1903. The vaguest date entries in the whole category attach to pocket watches rather than wristwatches.

Which case metals turn up most often?

Metal is stated in about a fifth of titles. Gold appears in 264 of them, with 9ct gold accounting for 180, and silver in 120. Beyond that come chrome, steel and the gold-filled and rolled-gold cases common in the Art Deco group. 14ct, 18ct and rose gold appear only in small numbers.

How many gents watches are listed each year?

Around 152 come up in a year on Sellingantiques, handled between thirteen different dealers. The archive behind that runs to 1,367 titles, so the yearly listing is a slice of a fairly deep category.

What does automatic mean on a watch listing?

It means the watch winds itself from the movement of the wrist, using a rotor or weight, rather than needing the crown turned each day. It appears in 128 titles. Bumper automatic, in 24 titles, is the earlier version, where the weight swings back and forth between springs instead of rotating fully. Most listings name no winding type, and manual wind dominates the category.

Do chronographs and calendar watches appear here?

Chronograph shows up in 44 titles, and calendar work runs from a simple date to triple date, giving day, date and month on one dial. Alarm watches, date pointers and a regulator dial also appear. Sampled one-offs include a tuning-fork Accutron and a Russian cosmonaut chronograph, each surfacing once and nowhere else.

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Men's mechanical wristwatches, mostly Swiss and English and mostly mid-century, worn on the wrist for daily timekeeping in steel, chrome, rolled gold or solid gold cases.