Up 'til then, people just carried pocket watches.
5 seconds sound clip from the Pulp Fiction movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:05:30 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- But the way it turned out, I'm talking to you.
- Butch I got something for ya.
- This watch I got here was first purchased by your great-grandfather during the First World War.
- It was bought in a little general store in Knoxville, Tennessee.
- Made by the first company to ever make wristwatches.
- Up 'til then, people just carried pocket watches.
- It was bought by private Doughboy Erine Coolidge on the day he set sail for Paris.
- This was your great-grandfather's war watch and he wore it every day he was in that war...
- This time they called it World War II.
[...]