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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
watch-chain

1739, from watch (n.) in the "timepiece" sense + chain (n.).

Usage examples of "watch-chain".

The man with the smile was still there, and so was a little seedy man with a cap and a watch-chain, and two plump blondes in slacks.

She admired a trinket which hung from his watch-chain, and he begged my permission to give it her.

He swayed a little, leering at me, and for all the reek of booze, the flash cut of his coat, the watch-chain over his flowery silk vest, and the gaudy bloom in his lapel - the marks of the vulgar sport, in fact - the little eyes in his fat cheeks were as hard as coals.

But, by degrees, watch-chains, necklaces, parti-colored scarfs, embroidered bodices, velvet vests, elegantly worked stockings, striped gaiters, and silver buckles for the shoes, all disappeared.

The black dress, gold cross on the watch-chain, the hairless face, and the soft, black wideawake hat would have marked him as a holy man anywhere in all India.