Sentence examples for wristwatch time from inspiring English sources

Everything that came after — the establishment of nationally and internationally agreed time zones; factory time clocks; the ubiquity of the wristwatch; time schedules for buses, ferries, and planes, for radio and television programs; school timetables; and much else — merely followed suit.

Gary Shteyngart's article about his year as a watch obsessive brought to mind my own father's love of five-dollar wristwatches ("Time Out," March 20th).

Equipped with this knowledge, we could be led to believe that the wristwatch's time is almost up and that this piece of technology is destined for the same graveyard as vinyl records or the horse-drawn carriage.

The last man they spoke to is wearing a wristwatch, but the time is wrong.

He stayed for twenty-four hours; every hour, his digital wristwatch spoke the time, in French, in a woman's voice — "Il est deux heures".

"But that's kind of like ditching your wristwatch to save time.

I looked down at my wristwatch noting the time left, then counted down the seconds as I watched through my telephoto lens.

HEWs were provided with a modest wristwatch to record time in their diaries, which they were allowed to keep at the study's conclusion.

How have the styles of pocket watches and wristwatches changed throughout time?

Although he derides his mother for clinging to the possibility of an otherworldly sign, he holds on to a dual-time wristwatch that may have some connection to his departed father.

But the two gunmen had fled with $150 and several wristwatches by the time the police reached the T.G.I. Friday's at 47 Broadway, near Exchange Alley a block south of Wall Street, just before 7 p.m. in response to a call from a manager who, unseen by the thugs, had sneaked out.