Title:

Personal Watches in Warsaw, 1890–1914: Social Meanings

Subtitle:

Acta Poloniae Historica T. 130 (2024), Time and the Modern World. Standardisation, Globalisation, Privacy ; Time and the Modern World. Standardisation, Globalisation, Privacy

Creator:

Brzostek, Błażej (1977– )

Institutional creator:

Fundacja Instytutu Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk ; Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla ; Polska Akademia Nauk. Komitet Nauk Historycznych

Contributor:

Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Publisher:

Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk ; Fundacja Instytutu Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2024

Description:

p. 11-31

Subject and Keywords:

personal watches ; watch production ; social time ; everyday life ; social prestige ; Kingdom of Poland ; Warsaw (Poland) - social life and customs - history -19th century ; Warsaw (Poland) - social life and customs - history - 20th century ; clocks and watches - design and construction - history ; clocks and watches - Poland - Warsaw - history

Abstract:

The article discusses the phenomenon of personal watches in the Kingdom of Poland at the turn of the twentieth century. These lands can be considered doubly peripheral: both in terms of power over official time, which was exercised by the administration of the Russian partition (controlled from a centre in the East), and in terms of production of timepieces, which were imported from abroad (produced in the West). The importation of watches, mainly Swiss, was associated with various local practices (advertising campaigns, fabrication of dials with the names of local watchmakers, etc.), and above all, it created a spectrum of attitudes and symbols in the “theatre of everyday life”. The watch was a marker of gender, a symbol of social and professional status, power, and political attitudes; it signified historical memory and loyalty to superiors.

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Relation:

Acta Poloniae Historica

Volume:

130

Start page:

11

End page:

39

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article : original article

Format:

application/octet-stream

Resource Identifier:

2450-8462 ; 0001-6829 ; 10.12775/APH.2024.130.01

Source:

IH PAN, sygn. A.295/130 Podr. ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license

Terms of use:

- ; Copyright-protected material. [CC BY 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license, full text available at:

Digitizing institution:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of History PAS

Projects co-financed by:

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Access:

Open