What wrist do you wear your watch (and why)

[Teeritz]

If you wear it on the right, pushers and crowns don't dig into your hand and are easier to operate. Makes total sense. I can't do it though.

If, however, we think back to the '50s and '60s, then that was the era of;

a) Smaller, lighter watches, with smaller crowns that were much less prone to digging into the hand.

b) A higher number of hand-wound watches, which required winding on a daily basis.

c) More watches on either leather straps, which had a little bit of give in them, or expanding bracelets like the kind that Speidel were famous for. This meant that the wearer could wind the watch while it was still on his wrist.

Modern watches are larger and heavier and therefore have a tendency to slide down the wrist so that any or all pushers will leave a mark on the back of the hand. Back in the days when an Omega Speedmaster or Rolex Submariner were considered large watches, this may not have been an issue.

Bear in mind that this is just a theory of mine, but I base it on what I saw during my time selling wristwatches. Some movers and shakers wore their (usually very expensive) watches on their dominant hand so that, when they extended their hand to shake yours, you would catch a glimpse of the Royal Oak Offshore or Big Pilots Watch they were wearing. In their non-dominant hand, they would be holding the keys to their Porsche or Audi TT. And they would make sure that you saw them.

[M. Montaigne]

Bear in mind that this is just a theory of mine, but I base it on what I saw during my time selling wristwatches. Some movers and shakers wore their (usually very expensive) watches on their dominant hand so that, when they extended their hand to shake yours, you would catch a glimpse of the Royal Oak Offshore or Big Pilots Watch they were wearing. In their non-dominant hand, they would be holding the keys to their Porsche or Audi TT. And they would make sure that you saw them.

Interesting. As a non-mover and a passable shaker at best, I started wearing mine on my right hand around 7th grade. No grandiose plans then, other than to somehow snag a kiss with Stacy, whose mom was kinda smokin'.

But on a serious note, I find that wearing the watch on the dominant hand is helpful in some scenarios where I use a watch to time my performance. Sometimes, right is better and sometimes, left is better. But over the years, it's become a habit, so everything else is irrelevant and quite incidental. I just wear it on the right because wearing it on the left now feels weird.

[Martin]

I'm right-handed. Watch goes on my left wrist. Non-dominant hand, which means (slightly) less likely to get banged around.

Same here for the same reason

If you wear it on the right, pushers and crowns don't dig into your hand and are easier to operate. Makes total sense. I can't do it though.

One of the first things my watchmaker told me was to never wind a watch or set the time when on your wrist. The forces on the stem are way to high that way as you tend to bend it upwards.

[WWII70]

That's my reason. Starting wearing my watch on the right wrist when I was in school, as the crown bothered me. I just styaed that way.

Actually, I never got the logic for 'left wrist for righties".

If you wear it on the right, pushers and crowns don't dig into your hand and are easier to operate. Makes total sense. I can't do it though.

[Strange]

Oops, hit the wrong button. Actually wear 'em on my left, not my right. Why? Force of habit mostly. But if you want to know the real reason it has to do with a sacred oath I took many years ago. This was part of a secret ceremony involving a drop of blood from my fingertip, sacrificing of a goat, incantations in Pali, ritual deflowering of Maltese virgins, ingestion of a secret decoction containing vile porky unmentionables and thimblewort, howling at the quartered moon, invoking the spirit of Gadiolinus, kneeling before an altar of skulls, and vowing to never, on pain of death, wear a watch on any wrist other than my left.

[I-B]

Left-handed and left-wearing ...

[M. Montaigne]

Dude, what were you smoking and where can I get some?

[Strange]

Dude, what were you smoking and where can I get some?

Given the time frame it was most likely black Nepali hash. That stuff was exquisite. Then again it could've been Thai stick. Wouldn't have a clue where to source either these days. <sigh>

[I-B]

Given the time frame it was most likely black Nepali hash. That stuff was exquisite. Then again it could've been Thai stick. Wouldn't have a clue where to source either these days. <sigh>

[chrono555]

Right. Just to be different.