Watches

‘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.