How do you wear your watch
- Thread starter Deimos Anomaly
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Outside on the left (I'm right handed). I expect with regulations tightening I may have to switch to a watch on a badge or something eventually.
I haven't been able to "wear" a watch in well over five years now. My wrists are unusually thin so I have to keep tightening the strap to the point were they wear out quickly, since they're cheap plastic/rubber straps it doesn't matter so much, but my last two watches I've just cut the broken straps off and carried them in my pocket. Having said that, they're always face out, if not the rim can chafe.
Since I started using mobile phones, I don't use a watch anymore. When I did (at school) I kept it in my front blazer pocket, I could never stand the feel of it on me.
Left wrist, face out.
I don't wear a watch because watches have a tendency to stop when I wear them.
Same, though I seem to be an exception of the left-handed people I know who wear watches as they have it on their right hands. It is a bit annoying when I'm writing though and when I did exams at uni I always took my watch off.
I'd like to wear a watch, I really would. The bands pinch my arm hairs, though.
When I wore one, it was on my left arm with the face pointing the same direction as the back of my hand (as opposed to the "outside of the wrist", which suggests a really odd way to wear a watch. The face pointing away from your body?).
Haven't worn a watch now for about three years, though.
--Ted
Haven't worn a watch now for about three years, though.
--Ted
Outside on the left.
I was always told that proper etiquette said that it was on the left wrist, regardless.
As a man of exquisite taste as you are, I was always wondering if you knew about the top of Italian style: l'Avvocato, as Gianni Agnelli was better known by pretty much everybody. I see you do.
With flamboyant narcissism, just like I wear everything else!
(actual answer: left wrist, face upward)
Does anyone here use the Gianni Agnelli method of wearing the watch outside the shirt sleeve?
I wear my watch on the outside of my right wrist.
I was always wondering if you knew about the top of Italian style: l'Avvocato, as Gianni Agnelli was better known by pretty much everybody. I see you do.
Of course!
Agnelli's style, I admire. His many imitators, not so much.
It seems that these days, anyone with a button-down collar half undone or a tie deliberately askew thinks they are masters of Sprezzatura. Instead, they are just showing bland uniformity to a trend, which Agnelli NEVER did.
Personally, I know I can't pull off a sprezzatura look without looking affected, but then again, I don't pretend to be able to in the way the many Agnelli imitators do.
Talking of Agnelli, what do you think about his grandson/nephew (I can never remember which) Lapo Elkann? I think he inherited a lot of Agnelli's wardrobe, but has lots of his own items too. Personally, I find him a bit too... too... too much... but I at least respect him for trying. And for surviving his encounter with the transsexual hookers & blow!
Lapo unfortunately has only inherited a fraction of Gianni's class.
I think he's been quite confused for a long while, about his role, about the footsteps he has to walk in, etc. etc.
He's not bad, mind you, but nobody will be able to take the place of l'Avvocato, not in the papers and magazines, not in the business world, not in fashion.
I think he's been quite confused for a long while, about his role, about the footsteps he has to walk in, etc. etc.
He's not bad, mind you, but nobody will be able to take the place of l'Avvocato, not in the papers and magazines, not in the business world, not in fashion.
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