Evolution of watches to smartwatches
In the early years, watches were carried in the pocket or attached on a chain. While today we have a different type, price, styles of smartwatches are available in the market. In the 16th century, Nuremberg clockmaker Peter Henlein was the man behind the invention of the first timepiece to be worn as pendants. Then came the wristwatch for wealthy women as jewellery in Europe, while men used as pocket watches and later into a useful tool for the British army and aviators. In 1972 Hamilton watch company introduce first digital electronic watch into American watch industry, which not only changed the Analog watch industry but also shaped the way for the future opening endless opportunities and then enters variety modes of watches by adding calculator, game, and live streaming until the birth of mobile phones. The modern form of smartphones seemingly killed the watch by adding features of watches in it. In 2012 Pebble came to this industry by crowdfunding with the solution faced on smartphones look at the Text messages, check the call and so on. In 2015 American tech giant apple introduce a smartwatch with modern fashion and ease of use function into the market and they catch the popularity within the youngsters all over the world. Other Companies like fossil, Samsung working on future innovation to change the market.
Time is an entity and plays a significant role in our life. That’s why we chose Smartwatch as our centre of study because it helps to simplify our day to day life through modern technology and it has a long back stable history. We collected data from various sources like websites, articles and books from that we sort out brief information based on this question Who were the inventors, designers and users evolved in the evolution of watch. Where, when and how is to become with the idea of new innovation in this.why is it important to implement new function into watch industry what is the purpose, intended usages, features and social and economic resource We formulated collected data into a group of evolution chain. First of all, we split smartwatch into the case, strap, digital. In the beginning, the pink colour chain represents the evolution of the case and also mention how the idea came, when, where, who and so on. After that Came up with wristwatch marked as orange colour and then the addition of Cases and strap new technology to come with digital represent as green from that we divided each pathway into different function and changes came up with over the years. In the end, this group of chain point out a smartwatch evolved from years, styles, innovation, geography, companies.
