It was an age of innovation. Someone came up with the idea that pocket watches could do more than just tell the time and look good telling it. Thus personalized pocket watches were created. They had messages or initials engraved on them. These pocket watches were popular with everyone. Companies could engrave their own messages on them to give as souvenirs or gifts. People could individually get anything they wanted engraved on them. They became very popular with lovers and were good as marriage souvenirs too. The uses were endless and it made good business sense.

Since pocket watches were such a rave in those days, this was the right thing to do to them. People got their initials put on so they could identify the watch as their own. Different scripts were used and different languages in various countries. Personalized pocket watches were as varied as the imagination was vast, to think of them.