Pocket Watch

The tick tick tick of time passing by brings you ever closer to the end of your hours. Slowly spinning in a relentless motion around the circle of numbers that fill this fancy man's device. The tiny metallic wheels turn inside the watch, walking you slowly through the days of your life, each second sounding like a tiny hammer pounding your name onto the great storybook of the world. Pocket watches were the most common type of watch from their development in the 16th century until wristwatches became popular after World War I when trench watches were used by the military. An early reference to the pocket watch is in a letter in November 1462 from the Italian clockmaker Bartholomew Manfredi to the Marchese di Mantova Federico Gonzaga, where he offers him a 'pocket clock' better than that belonging to the Duke of Modena. Early watches only had an hour hand, the minute hand appearing in the late 17th century. The first American pocket watches with machine made parts was manufactured by Henry Pitkin with his brother in the later 1830s. This sound uses the following file from Freesound:http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=104518