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The term "watch" means to look at something very closely and carefully. It also has several figurative meanings. A "watchman" was someone whose job was to guard a city by looking carefully all around him for any danger or threat to the people in the city.
* To "protect" someone or something involves not only looking at that person or thing, but also fighting or otherwise acting against anything that would harm him or it.