Wristwatches

[RoJoHen]

Outside.

But, is the rule the righties wear it on the left, and vice versa for lefties. The purpose being to minimize banging on the watch, I presume.

Yeah, you're supposed to wear it on the opposite arm of which you write, so you're not banging and scraping your watch against the table top.

I've had the same watch since I was 14, and I love it. However, the battery died back in the spring, as it does every 2 years, but I haven't gotten it replaced yet. I wore it for about a month even though it had stopped ticking. It's been through hell over the years and looks like crap. The glass is cracked, and some of the gold details have been rubbed off. I'm considering taking it to a jeweler and seeing what they can do to restore it.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Don't wear a watch, plenty of time pieces around me at home, in work, in the car.

 

[SVD]

Outside.

But, is the rule the righties wear it on the left, and vice versa for lefties. The purpose being to minimize banging on the watch, I presume.

Yeah, you're supposed to wear it on the opposite arm of which you write, so you're not banging and scraping your watch against the table top.

Merely convention, my watch feels more comfortable on that writing right hand.

 

[RoJoHen]

Well, yeah. It's not like the fashion police are gonna come get you if you wear it on the wrong arm.

 

[RJDiogenes]

• Moe: "Hey, what's the idea of the three watches?"
• Curly: "That's how I tell the time."
• Moe: "How do you tell time?"
• Curly: (points to each watch) "This one's ten minute's fast, it would be two hours; this one's twenty minutes slow, would be four hours. The one in the middle's broken and stopped at two o' clock!"
• Moe: "Well, how do you tell the time?"
• Curly: "I take the ten minutes on this one, and subtract it from the twenty minutes on that one, then I divide by the two in the middle!"
• Moe: "Well, what time is it now?"
• Curly: (pulls out a pocketwatch) "Oh, about ten minutes to four."

 

[SPCTRE]

I haven't worn a wrist watch in over 8 years (my mobile phone replaced it) but I know I'm going to wear one again eventually because it is kind of a status symbol in a white collar work environment - that, and I'm a conformist.

I'd like one of those expensive, Swiss-made automatic watches - I guess that also makes me a traditionalist.