Wearing Two Watches.
Reading edition
About 1770 it became the fashion to wear two watches. In a rhyming recipe of that date, "To Make a Modern Fop," appear the lines—
"A lofty cane, a sword with silver hilt, A ring, two watches and a snuff-box gilt."
The ladies soon adopted the fashion, but as watches were still very expensive, mock watches were often substituted.