Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on November 30, 2008 at 17:02:18 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: Dick's watch-Nancy's wrist watch posted by Adam Quinan on November 30, 2008 at 12:41:11:
I have made nerdish resort to Google.
The first child's wrist watch, featuring a well-known Mouse, appeared in 1935, and that was also the first year in which Switzerland exported more wrist watches than pocket watches.
I therefore think that the sort of watch that would have been given to a child (a cheap one!) would have been a pocket watch, but the comparatively affluent Bleacketts might have sprung for a wrist watch for Nancy by the date when SW was written.