Back in 1800,cowboys used to hang their watches with a chain from their waist line (in the belt position) and occasionally their watches were at risk of damage since they just hanged loosely. Levi came up with this pocket for the cow boys to put their watches there to protect them from breaking, and hence it became watch pocket.
In the early 19th century, with the coming of wrist watches, the watch pocket transformed to condom pocket. Men used to put condom inside the pocket. This saw the purpose of this pocket transform.
In the early 20th century, most people started preferring the pocket for putting coins to prevent loosing them. This have been the trend and it has changed the purpose to coins pocket. Up-to-date, most people prefer putting coins in this pocket since it's not easy to loose them while in there.
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