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<p>[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 294631, member: 360"]In the old days (pre-1900), men used to carry what people in the 20s and 30s used to derogatorily call 'woodburner' pocketwatches. BIG chunky 18, and 20-sized pocketwatches which were really thick and heavy and bulky. </p><p><br /></p><p>They went out of fashion in the late 1800s/early 1900s, when smaller 16 and 14-sized pocketwatches (closer to the sizes available today) started being made.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 294631, member: 360"]In the old days (pre-1900), men used to carry what people in the 20s and 30s used to derogatorily call 'woodburner' pocketwatches. BIG chunky 18, and 20-sized pocketwatches which were really thick and heavy and bulky. They went out of fashion in the late 1800s/early 1900s, when smaller 16 and 14-sized pocketwatches (closer to the sizes available today) started being made.[/QUOTE]
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