I suspect women are unafraid to own and admit that they're mostly fashion driven choices for the purpose of ornamentation and occasionally to tell the time.
My other half’s friend wears a rose gold Panerai. She looks very attractive in it...
Well women wore wristwatches first and often pocket watches in straps which were large.
So to be fair, we blokes are the newbies.
I will quote my dad from a business point of view
"Never trust a woman with a man's watch"
Now, as we are getting in that "what a watch tells about a person" psycology crap here is my thought:
1. She did not buy it herself
2. Probably inherited (from a dead man)
3. It's just a fling, has no idea "what" she's wearing
4. She's a show off
5. She's the aggressive type
Unless:
1. She's bigger than me
2. She's your wife
...
BUBI 0_0
Heh - Mrs Cain has a 40mm Montbrillant B01 Navitimer, a mid-size Cartier Tank and a ladies' Omega constellation, none of which had anything to do with me. The Breitling gets almost all the wear and IMO looks great on her. But then, Special Condition (2), above, applies so that's OK. ;-)
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Heh - Mrs Cain has a 40mm Montbrillant B01 Navitimer, a mid-size Cartier Tank and a ladies' Omega constellation, none of which had anything to do with me. The Breitling gets almost all the wear and IMO looks great on her. But then, Special Condition (2), above, applies so that's OK. ;-)
1. Ive bought all of my watches myself.
2. Nope, not one.
3. 23 years collecting, work in the trade and write about watches.. I've worn Patek to Casio and known each and every single one of them in between.
4. I keep my watches under my sleeve.
5. Im laid back despite being capable of sharp words.
1. I'm 5'9, are you short?
2. N/A.
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Here’s mrs Smith wearing mine and hers
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Apa-logies for crap quality
I mean pic not wife
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Currently Ive got 36mm - 42mm range.
Maximums that i've worn are 34mm (Air King) and 47mm (Pam 605)
7 inch wrists.
Whilst I consider it entirely up to the woman what size watch she wears, having a watch and bangle/bracelet on the same wrist as the watch makes me cringe.
Cannot imagine what kind of damage that habit can cause to a nice watch!
My wife wears a Daytona and root beer- she wouldn't buy a ladies watch now. I, happy as take less of a hit when she changes.
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My wife's favourite watch for a long time has been a Seiko SNK field watch. She likes the readability of a larger dial.
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My wife wears a 36mm TT diamond dial DJ from 1984, bought for a “special” birthday. She wears it all the time.
Looks a lot better on her than it does on me!
The history of women and watches is actually really interesting which is why the regular threads pontificating about women wearing "mens" styles get on my wick. No offence intended, but we arent all vacuous dollies wearing trinkets from sugar daddies.
The breguet 160 was made for Mary Antoinette. It was the most magnificent watch ever produced (at the time)
The first dedicated wristwatch was made for countess koskowicz by antoni patek.
Mercedes Glietze did the water resistance testing for Rolex oyster.
The first woman pictured wearing a mans watch either photographically or on film was honor blackman 55 years ago. It's not a new thing. Princess Margaret was getting drunk and gambling in a mens watches for years :D
Anyway. 42mm on me, 36mm on mrsv. And gratuitous pg.
My wife often doesn’t wear any of her watches, most are small traditional ladies, but usually if she needs to know the time she asks me, there is a clock in the car, or she looks at her phone, this has become more usual of late since she wears a strap on her wrist for arthritis but I did suggest she wears a watch on her other wrist, WHY!, was the retort. I suppose I need a use even if it is just the timekeeper.
Me, I don’t care what they wear as long as they are happy.
+1 It is interesting V and the wristwatch on men was very much a later thing. The wristlet in its various forms was considered a feminine jewellery item and decidedly non U for a man to wear one. The Boer war shifted attitudes, for military men at least and the Great War really got men wearing them. Even then it was well into the 1920's before wristwatch production for men outstripped pocket watches. And outside of very niche areas like pilot's watches both men and women's watches would be considered tiny by today's standards.
and soon after you had Raquel Welch wearing a Breitling Chrono in the spy caper flic Fathom.The first woman pictured wearing a mans watch either photographically or on film was honor blackman 55 years ago. It's not a new thing. Princess Margaret was getting drunk and gambling in a mens watches for years :D
And later on Farrah Fawcett wearing a LIP chronograph*.
Seems to work on them.
*for such a slightly built woman she must have had large enough wrists as they're not a small watch. Look much bigger on my wrist. In fairness my wrist shots have Bob Geldof organising charity gigs, so there's that.
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I am delighted to say my wife has better taste in men than watches.
Cheers for that wibbs! Not gonna quote but I didnt know about the shift between the wars.
And yep! Definitely works on them. As did the Ripley on sigourney 70s stylee :-)
I'm always amused when men make adverse comments about ladies wearing watches. For years women have scoffed at men's choices in 'taste' be it cars, clothing, watches, and dare I say interior design 😁
Women buying larger quartz fashion watches is why DW is doing well -
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My wife wears a 36mm Day-Date President. Personally I think the smaller sizes look silly...
afraid the wife wears watch's only as jewellery , the are small so she cant read them without glasses , but I come in hand for battery changes ,she's happy, I am happy more money for my own watches .
And there was me thinking "how great it is to have a light-hearted thread with no chippy snotty trolling"
I think it's so important we don't assume the gender of the people wearing big watches. They could be on a journey
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My mom often wears 47mm Panerai as it’s comfy,have long PR and easy to change the time zone
Wifey switches between Polar ExpII, 14060 and 312 on occasions.
All look good but she is 23 stone. 😂
It's nothing new for women to wear large items of jewellery - large hoop earrings being an example - and doing so makes them appear daintier. A large watch on a slim wrist (male or female) makes the wrist look daintier - just as a smaller watch make a wrist look thicker.
It's not rocket science...
This.
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My gf has been known to wear my BB58 and my 1603, and both look awesome on!
My wife wears a 47mm PAM Chrono and to be honest it looks absolutely tiny on her 10.5" wrist. She's put on a bit of weight recently.
My eldest daughter wears a mid size seamaster that I got her for her 21st - I think for her wrist size it’s about the limit - not too big but just about the right amount of heft :)
Reminds of the day our gold digging former neighbour appeared wearing James Constantinou; of Posh Pawn fame's Rolex diver (I forget the model) - apparently she had absolutely no idea of what it was or its value in a very "oh, this old thing" kind of way. Apparently he'd just left it on the bedside table, it was hanging off her wrist like a wizard's sleeve!