Probably roughly the way you did: say thanks for the gesture, yet shelve (or ultimately bin: there’s your suggestion) the sh*tter.
SanderDieman
joined 1 year ago
Simple: keep BOTH
Oh come on, what stupendously insecure BS is that? Wear whatever the hell you want. You are an ultimate fool and weakling if you let the fear of other people’s opinions determine your legit personal choices.
In the 1930s through 1970s, or maybe even the early 1990s, 30-34 mm was absolutely normal for any man, certainly for vintage (inspired) pieces like the ones in your post. The ridiculous hyper-focus on large watches (and worse: those as a sign of manlihood: ??) is over its peak, and eg 36mm is coming into style again.
My guess is that the risk of you with your 6” wrist looking ridiculous wearing a 42 or 44 mm watch is way higher than these things looking effeminate on you.
Man up, wear whatever you want!
Why not? Cool watch
‘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.
Wanna bet you’re nowhere near done? Nice start though, colourful
In essence you’re foregoing a few ‘00$ of time value of money. It’s annoying, but if you want the watch and can afford it in the sense that you do not need that money, why not?
Not something to get overly worked up about I’ld say: these are their conditions, either you accept them or you don’t, not much more to it.
Somewhere between tool and accessory I guess. They are both useful and nice (if chosen well)
Vostok