LG Watch Phone

Ashley Mercado
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The LG watch phone is a new way to tell time and talk on a phone. The watch

was originally developed in Europe around the 1500’s. Machine- made watches were

attempted in 1838 and were successfully developed in the 1850’s. Many companies were

formed especially for the wrist watch. Some did not last so long while other companies

achieved extreme success.

After 1875, cheaper watches were bough to peoples attention, some watches were

eventually sold for under a dollar. Between 1850 and the 1950’s the watch first came to

America and over a billion watches were made. The first watch ever was created by a guy

named Peter Henlein (1479-1542) of Nuremburg, Germany. When people started to make

new watches during the seventeenth and eighteenth century men would not really wear

them. The watches would be for the women to wear, the only watches that men would be

cough in were pocket watches.

Often watches are bought for there looks because of them always being precise all

the time. The first watch that men and women were able to have were pocket watches,

and after pocket watches were watches that were attached to the lining of a jacket or

corset. People said that the first wrist watch was created by a nanny around the end of the

19th century. She put a clock around her wrist by using a piece of silk and tying it around

her wrist

Louis Cartier was the first man who made watches that we wear today. When he

made a watch for Santos Dumont, by 1911 that watch became the blue print of what wrist

watches look like in this era of time. Soon after the first wrist watch was made, the
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shapes started to change from the classical round shape to square and other movado. One

of the first to come out with new designs was the most known “poly plan” shaped watch.

In this era watches were very different. They were different shapes, colors,

and sizes. The newest watch that just came out is the LG watch phone. The LG watch

phone is sponsored by CBS Interactive Inc. It contain a tempered glass that is touch

screen and it makes it easy to dial numbers, even though there were tiny keypads. The

screen is only measured at 1.43 inches diagonally. According to LG “texting” will be

done in a similar manner with a virtual T9 keypad.

The LG watch phone also has a music player. The music that comes out of the

speakers of the watch is very loud. If you would not want to take calls on speaker you

could get a blue tooth headset and connect it to the phone. The watch phone has 70MB

storage space. The charging pins are on the other side of the watch which could be

connected to the charger. Also on the right side of the watch there are three buttons; talk,

clear, and end buttons. The LG watch phone also has a camera included. On the upper

right corner of the phone is a little camera.

It has a variety of colors from black, silver, blue, red, and pink. It has a touch-

screen, three side mounted buttons, bluetooth, a speaker phone, and a music player, also

it water resistant. It has a metal casing and it is around 13.9 mm thick. The LG watch

phone will only be supplied in Europe because they would want to see how everything

works out over there first, and then if they feel as though that it is good, then they will

start releasing them in the U.S. The company used materials and stylistic parts from

different watches, so that the people who are buying them would be comfortable wearing

them with anything, on any occasion.

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It is the first touch watch phone in the world that was ever made. LG did not have

to sacrifice some of the abilities that the watch phone did which resulted in the size. It

basically didn’t have to take away any of the programs that the phone included, just

because of the size it was. There is a long history of watches being made from 1838 to

2009. In 1838, Louis Audermars invented stem winding and setting mechanisms. In

1868, Patck Philippe made the first wrist watch.

In 1871, Aaros Dennison of International Watch Company (INC), invented

waterproof case. In 1880, Girard-Peregaus produce a wrist watch for officers of the

Imperial Austrian Navy. In 1888, Cartier produce ladies wrist watch with diamond and

gold bracelet. In 1902, the first Omega wrist watch was produced. In 1902, also 93,000

wrist watches were sold in Germany. In 1903, Louis Brandt, founder of Omega wrist

watch, died. In 1904, one of the most famous early wrist watches appear, “The Santos,”

Dumond produced by the house of Cartier. In 1910, Longihes began wrist watch

production.

In 1911, Santos Dumont wrist watch went on a general sale. In 1912, Movado

made an army wrist watch with a protective grid over the glass. In 1914, the first alarm

wrist watch was made by Eterna. In 1917, British royal flying corps issued wrist watches

by Omega. In 1918, Omega supplied the U.S. army with wrist watches. In 1920,

Audemars produce the smallest repeater watch.

In 1923, the automatic wrist watch was made by John Hardwood. In 1925, Patek

Philippe made the first wrist watch with a perpetual calendar. In 1927, the first water

resistant Rolex was produced. In 1930, women baguette shape watch was produced. In
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1930, the first antimagnetic wirst watch was developed. In 1933, the first watch made for

children was developed.

In 1936, Omega appointed official time keeper at the Olympic games. In 1945,

the Rolex is the first watch with the date displaying on the watch. In 1953, the first

battery operated watch ever was invented. This watch was different because people were

not used to watches going by it self telling you the time they were used to the watches

that had the two hands in them and you had to read them that way.

In 1969, the International watch company introduces the DaVinci wrist watch.

Also during 1969 Neil Armstrong wears the Omega Speed master watch on the moon as

he made his first trip up there. In 1972, Audemars Piguet makes the first stainless steel

wrist watch. Also in 1972, Logines launches the LCD wrist watch. In 1983, the world’s

first swatch is launched. Also in 1983, Longines launches the conquest range, accurate

one minute in five years watch. In 1986, Tissot brought out the rocket watch. In 1987,

Tissot introduce the two timer (watch displaying both analog and digital display).

There are ten top companies that create the most popular watches today. There is

Rolex, Breitling, Omega, Citizen, Timex, Seiko, Tag Heuer, Bulova, Movado, and Casio.

Some parts that make up a watch is the Arbor. The arbor is the axle which turns the

wheel (button) on the watch. The Bezel of the watch is the frame that holds the glass and

covers the face of the watch.

The crown of the watch is the winding knob. It is also the mechanism that is

pushed to release the cover of the hunting case watch. A Fusee movement is a chain
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driven movement. The fusee is a spiral grooved cone used to equalize the power of the

mainspring. It is mostly found in some 19th century older watches.

The jewel is used to reduce the wear and decrease the friction of the moving parts

of a watch. The lever is under the bezel, after removing the bezel, and pulling the lever,

the hands will swing free when the crown is turned. A micrometric regulator allows a

watch maker to adjust a watch more precisely. It is found on almost all watches from the

mid 1800’s till our time now.

There are over twenty different parts to making a watch. There is the pallet

bridge, pallet, stud cover plate, stud holder, regulator, balance bridge, spring, stud, escape

wheel bridge, fourth wheel, center wheel, third wheel, third wheel, pillar plate, ratchet,

barrel drum, main spring, barrel arbor, barrel cover, ratchet cric.

Wrist watches were considered to be accessories for women, not men. Men

preferred the more traditional pocket watches that had been around longer then the wrist

watch. They first started wearing watches when they were in battle and since they had to

look at the watch to see the time it became hard not to get hurt because putting your head

down is not a good thing to do when you are in battle and it was hard to have a pocket

watch because since it was hanging on something that had to keep getting pulled up until

it came out your pocket. Soldiers found it easier to just wear a wrist.

Since the beginning when the first wrist watch came out the women would not

really wear them because they were over sized and husky and they were not always

accurate sometimes so they did not really were them. When people started coming out
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with new and better looking designs then women took a better interest in them and they

became known as accessories that women would wear. All of these time periods lead up

to the 2009 LG watch phone. Which in 2009, the LG watch phone is introduced to

Europe and soon to every where else around the world.

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