watch pocket

a small pocket in a garment, as in a vest or trousers, for holding a pocket watch, change, etc. Compare fob¹(def 1).

Origin of watch pocket

First recorded in 1830–40

He paused, characteristically thrusting two fingers into his watch-pocket.

The Sins of Sverac Bablon |Sax Rohmer
He reached for the little box of nitroglycerin tablets in his watch-pocket, got it out, took one, waited.

A World Apart |Samuel Kimball Merwin
A gold chain, depending from his watch-pocket, showed that he was the possessor of a watch.

Ben, the Luggage Boy; |Horatio Alger
He made sure he had the one single stone in his watch-pocket.

The Wealth of Echindul |Noel Miller Loomis

And hasn't she been six months—though I promised her not to tell you—six months, working a watch-pocket for you!

Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures |Anonymous