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Sector 001

(381 posts)
Fri May 8, 2026, 02:04 PM May 8

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Norrrm

(5,593 posts)
1. Pocket watch?
Fri May 8, 2026, 02:06 PM
May 8

ITAL

(1,379 posts)
4. I'm pretty sure that is correct
Fri May 8, 2026, 02:15 PM
May 8

Response to Norrrm (Reply #1)

The Roux Comes First

(2,322 posts)
2. Keys?
Fri May 8, 2026, 02:08 PM
May 8

pdxflyboy

(946 posts)
3. Small change?
Fri May 8, 2026, 02:09 PM
May 8

n/t

leftstreet

(41,256 posts)
5. Isn't for a roach clip?
Fri May 8, 2026, 02:17 PM
May 8

er...

Ilsa

(64,574 posts)
6. A single key? It would be worn securely
Fri May 8, 2026, 02:19 PM
May 8

higher on the hip with the shallowness of the pocket and be less likely to poke the much lower abdomen if using a front pocket or the butt if using a back pocket. It's probably functionally obsolete as car keys are disappearing in use, or because keys are usually carried in multiples, sometimes with mini discount/membership cards or elaborate key rings. But style lives on!

BluesRunTheGame

(1,972 posts)
7. I keep an AI detector in mine.
Fri May 8, 2026, 02:26 PM
May 8

It’s useful for posts like this.

highplainsdem

(63,107 posts)
17. Yep. See reply 16. There are already lots of AI slop videos about watch pockets.
Fri May 8, 2026, 06:28 PM
May 8

Disaffected

(6,570 posts)
9. Condom?
Fri May 8, 2026, 02:28 PM
May 8

sakabatou

(46,335 posts)
10. IIRC, originally, it was for a pocket watch
Fri May 8, 2026, 02:30 PM
May 8

There were no wristwatches in the 1800s, so pocket watches popular in the 1800s.

Wounded Bear

(64,642 posts)
11. We always called it a watch pocket growing up...
Fri May 8, 2026, 02:37 PM
May 8

in the 50's-60's era.

Greybnk48

(10,753 posts)
12. In the 50's we called it a coin pocket.
Fri May 8, 2026, 02:45 PM
May 8

That's all I know.

OldBaldy1701E

(11,553 posts)
13. It is a watch pocket. For those workers who wanted to have a time piece but were not wearing vests.
Fri May 8, 2026, 02:52 PM
May 8

It predates the wrist watch.

Since everyone can always find a use for it, they still put them on some designs.

I may be delusional, but I swear I seem to remember something about horse handlers, or dealing with deliveries, having a hand in adding those pockets.

RB77

(105 posts)
14. A Watch Pocket
Fri May 8, 2026, 04:52 PM
May 8

Is the first term I heard, - however in the late 60’s - early 70’s there were a handy place to keep dangerous drugs.

pecosbob

(8,492 posts)
15. I call BS...that's a change pocket, regardless of what this video claims.
Fri May 8, 2026, 05:27 PM
May 8

highplainsdem

(63,107 posts)
16. That video is AI slop from an individual or more likely a content farm in India, posting a new AI-generated
Fri May 8, 2026, 06:26 PM
May 8

video almost once a day since last October.

Lots of similar AI-slop channels can be found all over YouTube, with AI narration of AI-researched-and-written scripts about what are likely AI-chosen subjects.

If you weed out the AI slop videos about watch pockets, you can find older videos created by humans on the same subjects.

In the last few years there's been a flood of AI slop channels like the one you posted, including @historyofsimplethings - that one posting nearly 3,000 videos in a little over 2 years, admitting in at least 1 but not all of its videos that it's using AI so the videos can have errors. That channel would definitely be from a content farm. No one at the content farm is likely to care about the subject of the videos. They're just looking for clickbait to generate income. And flooding YouTube with AI slop that steals views and income from human creatives.

flvegan

(66,525 posts)
18. Currently? Giuliani's violin.
Fri May 8, 2026, 06:32 PM
May 8

(didn't watch the video, don't care to)

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