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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 266648, member: 25"]Explaining dating is like saying how can you tell a 1960 car from a 1930 car. There are both great and small style changes. More practically, most of us can do cars because we have seen so many of them.</p><p>I have seen very many watches, many of which I could date from hallmarks. This builds up a pattern in the mind and you just see what in the new object fits best with the pattern you already have. And then it's an educated guess. There are few radical changes, things tend to flow, customers set the design agenda for most things, only a minority of radical designers can actually change popular taste. </p><p>Younger people forget but the 1940s were war and recovery years, the amount of innovation in consumer styles was minimal, and mostly pragmatic, Utility furniture for example, or boiler suits. In the late 40s people were picking up the pieces, repairing and rebuilding, and it was not till the 1950s that we start to see any novelty in popular design start to re-appear.</p><p>The movement is consistent with a later date but not definitive, and I just cannot see anything inside the back of the case.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 266648, member: 25"]Explaining dating is like saying how can you tell a 1960 car from a 1930 car. There are both great and small style changes. More practically, most of us can do cars because we have seen so many of them. I have seen very many watches, many of which I could date from hallmarks. This builds up a pattern in the mind and you just see what in the new object fits best with the pattern you already have. And then it's an educated guess. There are few radical changes, things tend to flow, customers set the design agenda for most things, only a minority of radical designers can actually change popular taste. Younger people forget but the 1940s were war and recovery years, the amount of innovation in consumer styles was minimal, and mostly pragmatic, Utility furniture for example, or boiler suits. In the late 40s people were picking up the pieces, repairing and rebuilding, and it was not till the 1950s that we start to see any novelty in popular design start to re-appear. The movement is consistent with a later date but not definitive, and I just cannot see anything inside the back of the case.[/QUOTE]
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