Noggin wrote: Thu Jan 02, 2025 5:21 pm
I'm a bit odd cos I wear my watch on the 'wrong' wrist. No idea why, but people seem to wear them on the right wrist and I always put mine on my left
Do they? Do you know, I've never really thought about it. I wear mine on the left, always have.
I'm not keggy-handed or anything. It seems logical as it's easier to fasten/unfasten with the right hand and it's easier to press any buttons (not that watches had buttons when I started wearing a watch ).
Maybe I wear it on the right then! LOL I know I was told often that I wear my watch on the 'wrong' wrist!! Just haven't worn one for a couple of decades and couldn't remember which side to put it on!!
I think it's cos my mum is a leftie, so she probably wears hers on the 'wrong' hand too??
Noggin wrote: Thu Jan 02, 2025 5:21 pm
I'm a bit odd cos I wear my watch on the 'wrong' wrist. No idea why, but people seem to wear them on the right wrist and I always put mine on my left
Do they? Do you know, I've never really thought about it. I wear mine on the left, always have.
I'm not keggy-handed or anything. It seems logical as it's easier to fasten/unfasten with the right hand and it's easier to press any buttons (not that watches had buttons when I started wearing a watch ).
Anyone who wears their watch on the right hand side is uncouth and probably likes frozen Lasagne.
Yup, that's me
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Sunny wrote: Thu Jan 02, 2025 1:00 pm
I don't know when I started or why, but it's habit now, and like you say, feels logical
According to the missus it's 'an engineer thing'! We'll have to get Dazzle to do a work survey.
(Pretty prescient that I started wearing a watch that way at school ).
Just to be awkward, wearing mine on the inside of my wrist while movingq 300 kilo timber frames* was what knackered the glass on mine.
To be fair, it was scratched to feck so I had a sapphire crystal lined up for it in a cupboard.
*there were two other people helping me with them so I wasn't on my own. Plus we had a crane to lift them the main way up, we just had to firtle em into position. Sometimes with great force.
I often realise mid-DIY that I should turn it round. Never pre-DIY
I get what people are saying about watches looking big on wrists but I have pretty big wrists at a shade under eight inches or so a 36 or even 40mm watch can just end up looking a bit like like a Ladies watch on me.
I used to think big watches were for rappers etc, but I'm used to them now and like them. I ditched my apple watch 9 in favour of a Ultra 2 because its bigger and I prefer the look of it but i have quite big wrists so a big watch doesn't look that out of place. The other plus is i can see a big watch face without having to put my glasses on.
A mate of mine is into some odd watches and has a couple of U-Boats which are crazy big and do not suit his little wrists at all, but then he says it gives the watch more impact which is true I guess. To each their own, right...
The. Magnifying cyclops on the date window of Rolex's doesn't seem such a bad idea to me nowadays.
I've got one ready to put on one of my Casio analogue watches, along with the UV curing glue to stick it on and a sapphire crystal to replace the mineral glass.
I've done one watch with a sapphire crystal so far and this next one is identical other than being blue face instead of black.
Changing the crystal wasn't too hard to press out and press another in and even if I cock it right up I can just press another crystal in.
Treated myself to this when our eldest was born back in 2008.
More or less worn every day since, even though I have flirted with a couple of smart watches including the original Apple Watch and got a nice Mondain Swiss Railways watch for my 50th, this old thing carries out 95% of my time keeping duties.
The thing I always remember about them is Jeremy Clarkson using it as an example of why it's nice to have some sort of off roader (I can't actually remember what the car was!).
Paraphrasing: "My watch can go to 600m depth. I'm never actually going to go to 600m, but it's nice to know it's OK if I drop it in the sink"
Zimbo wrote: Fri Jan 03, 2025 3:16 pm
That's a Planet Ocean isn't it? Quite liked the look of them and was my second choice, just a bit too big for my slender wrist!
Yes that’s correct, and they did come in 2 sizes, this is the smaller diameter one, about 40mm.
Taipan wrote: Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:36 pm
Looking for something else, I just found this in the loft-of-plenty! Think it was my Dads? What a lovely watch! Set the time and put it on and it’s ticking away nicely!
I'd like to wear this, but its strap is old and likely to break and is also too tight for my wrist. What sort of strap would you watch aficionados recommend for such a piece?
TIA
Taipan wrote: Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:36 pm
Looking for something else, I just found this in the loft-of-plenty! Think it was my Dads? What a lovely watch! Set the time and put it on and it’s ticking away nicely!
I'd like to wear this, but its strap is old and likely to break and is also too tight for my wrist. What sort of strap would you watch aficionados recommend for such a piece?
TIA
IIRC this place gets good reviews, and I'm sure there are other decent strap suppliers. https://www.watchgecko.com/
TBH I'd probably look for something in a tab leather that complements the colour of the watch body.
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