- a variation of wrist watch.
wristwatch
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
No matter how much capability can be crammed into a wristwatch or eyeware or computer chip under your skin, customers will value the additional capability contained in a package that slips in your pocket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
The Timex Ironman is a digital wristwatch popularized in the 1980s.
From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2026
A Patek Philippe timepiece that in 2016 became the most expensive wristwatch ever sold at auction fetched an even higher price this weekend, auctioneers Phillips said Sunday.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2025
The remains were found in January by a Polish Antarctic expedition, alongside a wristwatch, a radio, and a pipe.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025
He was ripping the paper off a gold wristwatch when Aunt Petunia came back from the telephone looking both angry and worried.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
