The evolution of watch technology: from wind-up to smartwatch

Keeping time has always been a fascination of human beings, and even from ancient times, it’s involved an instrument of some kind.

The earliest were the sundials of ancient Egyptian and Babylonian astronomy (3500 BC). Incredibly inaccurate and useless at night, they told time by measuring shadow lengths. The many limitations of the sundial motivated man to develop devices that could accurately measure time without the aid of the sun.

Now we have access to incredibly advanced time-keeping systems that can travel with us on our wrists at all times. And we’re still not satisfied. The advancement of the timepiece marches on as we develop more technologically advanced features, as well as computerized watches that early watch inventors would hardly recognise.

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