re: Omega Watch by rjcarr on Jul 08,2006 04:30 PM I'm pretty sure what you have here is called a pocket watch. I don't know how old you are, but in watch history, men typically wore pocket watches (you put it in your pocket and attached a chain to it and a belt buckle for easy access) and women wore wrist watches. Sometime around the turn of 1900 men started wearing wrist watches as well.