Watches were mostly dressy affairs until 1953.

Explorers and adventurers from back in the day were so tough they wore dress watches up mountains and crossing oceans. At least, that’s how the often small, simple and conservatively styled watches would look to our modern eyes. There was a time, you see, when sport watches as we know them today didn’t really exist — until when suddenly, in 1953, they did.
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