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Message:: [QUOTE="Trueshooter, post: 1698969, member: 50344"]Encyclopedia Britannica: watch fob, short ribbon or chain attached to a watch and hanging out of the pocket in which the watch is kept; the term can  also refer to ornaments hung at the end of such a ribbon or chain. Until  World War I and the development of the wristwatch, most watches  designed for men had to be carried in the pocket. About 1772 the fashion  of carrying a watch in each waistcoat fob pocket was introduced (though  one watch was usually false); watch fobs consisted of chains supporting  seals. By the beginning of the 19th century, the fashion for elaborate  masculine jewelry had passed, and all that remained of the watch fob was  usually a simple chain. I was introduced to coin collecting when I was 8 by my grandfather who was an avid collector of watches and coins, and an attorney for the Aparicio family beginning around the 1930's. When he passed among his collection he left the watch, coin, and two books written by Edgar Juan Aparicio y Aparicio. The books are written about the lineage of notable Spanish families (among them the Aparicios), traced from the time of the Conquistadors. The titles are: 1. Conquistadores de Guatemala y Fundadores de Familias Guatemaltecas2. Los Gutierrez Marroquin y Sus Descendientes[/QUOTE]