With the economic downturn, fewer people are looking for a watch to act as a big status symbol.

This, however, was a one off, the first mass produced jump hour watch was designed by Jeromy Pallweber for the Cortobert company (again, a French firm) in the 1880s. Jump Hour Watch - A Brief History Jump hour watches are becoming incredibly popular right now. They are looking for a watch that provides them with something individual, unique and remarkable. This makes jump hour watches the first ever. And that is what the jump hour watch has always represented. The first recorded jump hour watch was made by esteemed French watch makers Blondeau for the French King of the time in around 1830. Rather than being a wrist watch, these were in fact pocket watches but are very much the modern fore runner of today's watches since they were the first to display the time via numerals shown in a window rather than by a dial as other watches did (and most still do). This article takes a quick look through the history of the watch from its invention to its height of popularity to the present day.

Many people associate jump hour watches with the 1970s so are surprised to learn that they were invented in the nineteenth century.