Watch wearing from 1500-1969 It began, appropriately, with an egg. Around 1500, Peter Henlein, a craftsman from Nuremberg, Germany, created the first watch by enclosing a timekeeping movement in a round portable case (an iron musk ball, writes one historian) and adorning it with a dial and hours hand. Henlein's timepiece and others that followed were later dubbed "Nuremberg eggs" because of their shape.  So goes one version of the birth of watch-making. It has never been confirmed, and, like much watch history that followed, is the subject of some dispute. Ovoid or otherwise, from Nuremberg or somewhere else, the first watches- and all their descendants up to the middle of this century depended on a simple but ingenious invention. It was a spring that, as it gradually unwound, provided energy that moved the timepiece hands, thus performing the same function as the weights that powered the clock atop the village church tower. This device came to be known as the mainspring.  Clubwww1 news item....the most expensive watches ever made
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