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‘Hate’ is perhaps a bit strongly put: people may wear what they want, however ridiculous it looks.
But otherwise I am fully with you: large watches often look laughable on people with smaller to medium wrists. Wherever the lunacy came from that putting a frisbee or dinner plate sized watch on your wrist is ‘manly’ is a complete mystery to me. It is frankly sad to see so many people being insecure on their wristsize, which is really not that easy to influence. To think that one might ‘compensate’ by actually accentuating the puniness of one’s wrist with a massive clock on top of it is misguided if not pathetic. Just deal with who you are, I’ld think.
Fortunately indeed there are … (a) … a large number of viable vintage options around, which tend to be more in say the 31-37mm range; (b) … increasingly brands that do veer back from the oversizing madness: 36mm is definitely back in the picture, along with 37-39mm; (c) … if need be unisex or even ‘for females’ labeled watches to consider, why not? Just wear what you like and fits well! (d) … certain somewhat larger (eg dive/Flieger/…) watches that by their purpose and/or proper design (eg of the lugs) sort of work on smaller wrists.
It's not... hate, it's more just like "wouldn't wear on my wrist nor own". That's a great point but you got the overall idea.
I keep getting recommended large and chunky like, you know, huge watches that look almost like having a whole car wheel on the wrist in proportion to my small-medium wrists and it only happens because "oh he's a man. Surely he will like how manly these look!". No I actually don't.
Yes absolutely there's many brands out there delivering smaller sizes...and I find myself realizing Longines has a great selection of small-medium sized watches as well as Timex, Rolex even or Omega or Swatch
But when I use my small watches I sometimes do get asked why I'm using a feminine watch...and it is annoying
Yes, watch shops tend to have this default "man big, woman small" mentality. My friend happens to look awesome wearing big watches and she has a number including a Panerai Luminor (they tried to sell her a Due but the bigger one looked better on her) and a Breitling Navitimer 41 among others. She's a very slender, quite tall model build but has quite flat wrists so they all look awesome on her. On the other hand, I was looking at Reverso's today and the the smaller, more traditional ones looked way better on me, even with my 7.5" wrist.
Exactly. I also think your friend is right if she likes how bigger ones look on her wrists and commend her anti-stereotype attitude rly
Shrink it and pink it
larger divers can definitely work on smaller wrists. i wear a 45mm Seiko Turtle on my 16cm/6.25 inch wrist all the time. it's short 47mm lug to lug make it work just fine.
theres definitely alot more to wearing dimensions than sheer diameter.