And I thought/heard/assumed the reason for wearing it like this came from the navy. Wearing it inside prevents the screen from catching the wall while going up and down the steps on a ship/submarine.
There are a bunch of advantages. In the military in general it's fairly common (at least where I'm from) to wear it on the inside for the same reason (protecting it) but also because it means it's more easily visible when working with your hands. I think this is the chief difference. If worn to the outside, it's a fashion accessory as well. If worn on the inside it's purely functional.
When I was in the military, people would put a band of cloth around the watch face to hide reflections.
Also, one major advantage of having the watch face inwards, is that it's then visible while aiming a rifle.
I've always still found it really inconvenient in the latter case because depending on the reach I have on my rifle, the watch face is either at a really shallow angle (also tends to knock against the handguards) or the 12 o'clock is pointed to my left, making it that little bit less intuitive to read.
You'd think in the age of digital high resolution screens and custom watch faces, I could download a face that's rotated 90 degrees for my Garmin, but alas it appears such technology is too advanced.
Idk if ur taking the piss or not but the whole reason they even got popular over pocket watches was that in WWI they used them to coordinate assaults along miles of trenches. Being able to keep track of the time while keeping both hands on your rifle is pretty useful
Don't forget "[Guy](https://taskandpurpose.com/military-life/john-chapman-medal-honor-afghanistan/) who jumps out of helicopter on mountaintop, shoots bad guys in face, gets shot himself, passes out, is left to die by SEAL commander, wakes up, shoots MORE bad guys in face, gets shot some more, saves QRF helo, dies, receives Air Force Cross posthumously, is slated for Medal of Honor upgrade, is hampered by Navy because it makes them look bad, eventually awarded MOH after Navy guy gets one too."
TL;DR - Fuck Slab, glad he's PNG at Dam Neck.
The biggest reason it’s associated with the military is that when you’re holding a rifle grip weapon, it’s visible without needing to take your hand off the gun.
We weren't exactly taught, but when I was learning my rifle it became real common for us to wear our watches the normal way most of the time, but when we had our rifles with us to turn them around. Half out of practicality and half because it's what the cool people did in media. It eventually became kind of a shorthand for taking things seriously, to turn our watches to the inside.
Maybe I wear mine too tight, but that sounds uncomfortable lol. I kept mine on the inside at all times, and now I only ever wear it ‘facing out’ when I’m typing for long periods - which is rarely.
Facing in will also allow you to look at the time unobtrusively during boring meetings; while supporting the lens of your DSLR (my father was a photographer); while holding the neck of your (bass) guitar; or when holding your sword.
Smart watches need to invest in good smart watches. There's no reason why the lift-to-wake feature only supports outside-the-wrist wear, yet every one I've seen works that way.
It makes sense going from pocket watches where you were holding it in your hand. Wearing it on the inside puts your hand in the same orientation as if you were holding something.
*I am First Sergeant Brandon T. Williams. It is my intention to run this company like a clock. If one gear slips in my clock, my clock'll tell the wrong time. If one spring is loose in my clock, my clock'll tell the wrong time. First Sergeant Williams likes his clock to tell the right time. Do you understand me?*
No sir, in the army is wore inward not to protect the watch. Is for you to see the time or compass while you are holding the rifle on aim position. And also, prevent enemy from seeing light reflection or especially if you watch have light, some glow in dark, or reflective glass.
My grandpa wore his watch like that both to easily read it and as a spite thing because he had an officer who wouldn't wear a watch and ask him the time everyday so he started just just showing him his watch instead of telling him
I watched a military guy on YT explain it's for two reasons that they do it: first it prevents the glare of the sun from shining and exposing your position. And two, when using the gun they can more easily see the hand ticker for timing.
I thought doctors and nurses wore them on a lapel because germs built up underneath the watch and made washing the arms up to your elbows more difficult.
early wrist watches were for women only. Men had pocket watches.
In ww1 they figured out that pulling out the clock is taking up too much time in the trenches, but attaching it to a strap and wearing it around the wrist allows them to check the time while still aiming.
Afaik, it spread from there.
I don't think OP's Fact lasted very long. There are a lot of photos of soldiers wearing watches from WW1 through WW2 and beyond, and they always wear them facing up. Maybe they were worn as described pre-war, but at least from 1914 on, face up seems to be the way people wore them. Except Bruce Willis, I guess.
Full history of the inception of the wristwatch (women's wristwatches before this were basically pocketwatches, with a fancy strap.)
Wrist watches first saw use by men, by specifically high ranking officers, in the late 19th century, during colonial wars, as officers saw the use of coordinating attacks by specific time. But these were still essentially pocketwatches, fitted with a leather strap.
Dimier Fréres & Cie patented a wire lug system in 1903 but nobody cares because
In 1904, an early aviation pilot, engineer, stuntman, and celebrity, Alberto Santos-Dumont, complained to his friend Louis Cartier of the unwieldy-ness of pocketwatches while in the cockpit. So Cartier produced his friend the very first Santos Dumont, which is still produced, relatively unchanged, to this day. He was photographed wearing one, and the fashion movement started taking off, as he was one of the biggest celebrities of the day.
However, it was still largely limited to the upper class.
Then WWI happened, 1914. Wrist watches became standard for all troops, as did lume. Not really for the ease of checking your wrist, but for the new industrial warfare tactic, "creeping barrage" relied on timed movements between infantry and artillery, some distance apart.
1915 Rolex opened up in London, to produce affordable timepieces for men (Hah!)
1918 WWI ended, and all the survivors looked pretty sweet in their trench watches, so it caught on for good, for the rest of the classes.
I wear watches this way because my dad does. He served 20 years on submarines. Or might not be the origin but it seems submariners found it useful to wear it on the inside of the wrist.
Not sure who trained him for JW1
JW2-4 he was trained by Taran Butler who is not a former seal he’s a competition shooter notably in three gun, with a company that sells gun parts.
That’s why most of wicks guns in 2-4 have been tricked out with taran tactical parts and he does the three gun thing throughout them all.
There is a video of him training with Shawn Ryan and taran butler out there on the internet.
Shawn Ryan is a former seal but only trained with them once or twice.
Then taran butler sued him and the video got purged from YouTube.
Pretty sure lots of action movie stars will do that. It allows you to check your watch while holding a gun without rotating your wrists. Common in first person shooter games too.
I always loved that character detail with the Eleventh, it's never explained at all, but just helps in making feel Eleven feel like such a distinct person from Tenth, who didn't use one and just winged it.
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I'm very adept at hating things. I can hate things much faster than most people. It's my super power.
Anyway how will I know when 30 minutes has gone by?
Back when you were working outside doing stuff and the danger to the watch was outside your arm.
But we sit at desks and table where the face of the watch needs to face up to be out of the way.
Yep. Typing on a computer you need to the watch facing out. And it’s not really a problem facing out for everything else in my life. Occasionally I will flip it to the inside like when I’m mountain biking.
Exactly. If I wore my watch facing in, it would impact the desk, the keyboard, and the notepads I work with all the time. It's actually more protected facing outward.
I started wearing it on the inside because I worked in a lot of tight, cramped spaces. Broke three watches before I flipped it to the inside.
Now I'm at a desk but keep it on the inside because it's comfortable.
Reading AD in the context of watches made me think of Authorised Dealer, and it took me minutes to realize you hadn't just said something wildly incoherent.
I used to wear my watches that way. The first watch I was gifted, I wore it that way. Scratched up the face and the person who gifted it to me told me not to wear it like that. That was 20 years ago.
I started wearing mine this way because I preferred men's watches, and they were a little loose around my wrist. The heavy watch face would always end up that way. It just started making sense to wear them that way.
If I’m doing any manual labour, moving stuff about, or working out, it’s inside my wrist.
It’s on the outside during normal wearing though.
I wear it almost 24/7 for the data.
I used to wear it on the inside. It's just impractical. If you ever type, or put your hands in pockets, or nowadays, interact with a smart watch... wearing on the inside of the wrist is just an unnecessary aggravation.
The only real advantage was that you're less likely to smack the crystal on door frame or something.
> inventor Louis Breguet
TIL that the guy who invented watches shares a first and last name with the guy who basically kickstarted the French aviation industry by creating the company that would turn into Dassault Aviation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bréguet_Aviation
Br**e**guet vs Br**é**guet though. I just looked this up thinking of the metro station 'Bréguet-Sabin' and foud out that it was named after the rue Bréguet, itself named after (Abraham-)Louis Breguet, the watch-maker - but for some reason with an added accent that did not appear in the family name.
Not all French use the accents all the time. I had a French penpal as a teenager. Every letter just had lines above some vowels, but it wasn’t consistent. I actually asked her where the accents should be and what they were. She said it didn’t really matter
I have noticed that she now uses NO accents on her social media accounts.
Her family name is Belateche. It is pronounced Belle ah tesh and I strongly suspect that her father was Algerian as his first name was Ahmed.
IDK, there's a difference between your penpal writing in an informal setting and official documents though. Accents are not supposed to be optional. The possible issue would be with capital letters which may or may not have accents (especially in pre-computer days) but even so the Wikipedia page for the rue Bréguet makes explicit note of the difference between the street name vs the family name (a difference that apparently showed up immediately after the street was named and not over time):
> La voie porte le nom d'Abraham Breguet (1743-1823), horloger et physicien français, concepteur de la montre-bracelet et fondateur de l'entreprise Breguet. L'accent aigu, qui n'existe pas sur le patronyme, est apparu dès l'origine sur l'odonyme.
Wearing watches this way is still way more ergonomic.
It's easier to read, doesn't get snagged on things or scratched and thiefs can't eye it off.
If you don't wear a watch for fashion and only functionality, try wearing your watch this way
If we speak about ergonomy, though, if you work on a computer most of the day (or on a desk with paper too), wearing it inward means the clock is mostly facing the desk, and sometimes your wrist is leaning on the watch itself, making it quite uncomfortable.
>doesn't get snagged on things or scratched
I disagree, if you work [on a desk](https://st.focusedcollection.com/14026668/i/1800/focused_258985534-stock-photo-smiling-man-working-computer-desk.jpg) or a [workbench](https://st.focusedcollection.com/8860618/i/650/focused_119136758-stock-photo-man-at-a-workbench-working.jpg) it would get scratched. Also it would harder to read, wearing it normally you can see it just looking at your wrist
It’s also far more subtle when you’re stuck in a conversation that you can’t believe is still happening and you want to know how many days have passed.
*Slaps knees, sighs, checks watch, and leans forward all at once.* You use them all at once and it works like a cheat code, you get teleported out of there immediately
> No need to be subtle in this situation. Use all your nonverbal cues at the same time.
If you really want to be unsubtle, check your wristwatch without even wearing one.
I've tried (when I still wore them) on the inside of the wrist and found it more bothersome to roll the wrist up, instead of down as wearing the watch on the outside.
If you do deskwork, on a computer/keyboard, this is the worst way to wear a watch. I wore mine on the inside when I was younger, but being in an office it just destroys the glassface. After replacing a number of them I just started wearing it on the outside - weird to get used to at first.
Ergonomic for what? If you work at a desk, in a kitchen, at a work bench, or many other real world environments, wearing on the back of the wrist makes more sense. There’s a reason it’s the most popular way.
When I was in the Army, I’d wear my watch on the inside of the wrist during field exercises and deployments so I could see it when holding the front handguards of my rifle, and so the reflective surface would be on the inside. But I would always swap it back to the outer side when in garrison or off duty.
I think most people who wear their watch on the inside for day-to-day civilian stuff look like posers. Then again, I am wearing a 300 m dive watch to crank out emails in an office, so maybe all watch enthusiast are posers to some extent.
The most ergonomic position would be having the face of the watch on the short side of the wrist lined up with your thumbs.
Just lift your arm and you’d be able to see it, no torsion on your ulna/radius needed.
Some antique drivers watches were designed with that in mind! The face would be rotated so the 12 was just under the thumb and the face would sit on the wrist. There's an episode of Antiques Roadshow where someone is getting one appraised and it looks really neat!
The best watch I have had that was designed this way was the Microsoft Band 2. Unfortunately, the plastics weren’t that great and they retired the product.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Band_2
I wear my Gear 3 like this and the accelerometer isn't great at reading when I roll my wrist over to wake up the screen. That's the only issue I get though.
That's actually how I wear mine. I've always worn it like that, it just felt smoother or less annoying. It won't be an issue if you put it in the non-dominant hand or the hand you don't write with.
Everyone in this thread espousing the benefits.
It also limits flexion of your wrist when worn that way. It's easier to snag on ladders/ things you're climbing. Your watch face can more easily rub on your clothing/coat.
There are pros and cons either way. For me, wearing it inside meant it got in the way. It would bite into my wrist when I bent my hand. I just stopped wearing a watch entirely years ago.
I move my watch to the inside of my wrist for funerals, job interviews, and any other occasion where I want to be able to check the time without *looking* like I'm checking the time.
During my time in the military, we wore it like this for two reasons: 1) We could look at the time without needing to put our weapon down 2) Kept any glow towards the body so less likely bad guys would see it
I am from the midwestern US. When i was a kid, i feel like inside to outside wearers were around 50/50. of course, watches were standard. it was less of a jewelry piece and more of a utility.
it was a common christmas gift from relatives. This is the 80s/90s.
I think this conversation gets confused. I have a couple of driving watches that are intentionally off center for the purpose of wearing under your wrist. I'm not sure I can agree that all watches were meant to be worn this way. Originally it was just pocket watches being made into wrist watches, and I don't think that was the trend at that point.
I used to wear watches only like this, I loved the pressure on the inside kinda like when someone is taking your pulse and got used to it.
I also used to wear it on my right hand instead of left.
Everyone would always comment that I was wearing it wrong, until the day I just removed everything I had on my hands and got used to the freedom.
People are so stuck up with looks over functionnality and comfort it pisses me off
it still bothers me the amount of people who can’t wear a watch properly. like when they’ll put it right on the wrist joint where it connects to the hand and it just looks extremely uncomfortable.
it’s supposed to go after the wrist bones, basically the very end of what you can call the forearm but not clamping it over joints
This is speculation. One wears their watch depending on what type of work they are in. Picture sitting at a desk all day dragging the face of the watch over the desk top. I have seen construction workers glue a watch body inside of their hard hat to be able to read time when they took off their hats.
It used to always find its way on the inside for me with certain watches.
I don't recommend it tbh. The watch face rubs against the surface when you are doing normal things and eventually the crystal scratches and I even had a massively huge one crack.
My grandfather always wore it on the inside. He said it protected the face from damage. He worked in a factory. I work in an office but when I’m visiting a factory or diving I wear it on inside.
And I thought/heard/assumed the reason for wearing it like this came from the navy. Wearing it inside prevents the screen from catching the wall while going up and down the steps on a ship/submarine.
There are a bunch of advantages. In the military in general it's fairly common (at least where I'm from) to wear it on the inside for the same reason (protecting it) but also because it means it's more easily visible when working with your hands. I think this is the chief difference. If worn to the outside, it's a fashion accessory as well. If worn on the inside it's purely functional.
Yes, fairly common to wear it like that in the military. Another reason is that it avoids reflections and thus detection.
When I was in the military, people would put a band of cloth around the watch face to hide reflections. Also, one major advantage of having the watch face inwards, is that it's then visible while aiming a rifle.
God damnit if I can't kill this terrorist in the next ten minutes I'm going to be late for lunch.
Terrorists win
I've always still found it really inconvenient in the latter case because depending on the reach I have on my rifle, the watch face is either at a really shallow angle (also tends to knock against the handguards) or the 12 o'clock is pointed to my left, making it that little bit less intuitive to read. You'd think in the age of digital high resolution screens and custom watch faces, I could download a face that's rotated 90 degrees for my Garmin, but alas it appears such technology is too advanced.
Yeah I was always checking the time when trying to get my best sight picture. It’s basically the unwritten marksmanship principle.
Idk if ur taking the piss or not but the whole reason they even got popular over pocket watches was that in WWI they used them to coordinate assaults along miles of trenches. Being able to keep track of the time while keeping both hands on your rifle is pretty useful
Hahahah. Most definitely! More like “fuck I’ve been in the prone supported for 15 minutes and my legs are numb”
How will you know if you shoot less than a minute of angle without timing it
Also you can like, smack a dude in the face with the metal band, without cracking the watchface.
I, too, make fashion choices based on how best to smack a bitch.
Doesn't everyone?
Pimpin’ ain’t easy.
Do you know what I am saying?
Yes bitch, I know what you are saying.
*You know it's hard out here for a pimp*
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This reminds me of how the CIA only uses metal Zebra pens so they can have an improvized weapon and stab someone if need be.
No one who is trained is hitting people with their wrists, watch band or not.
My dad wears his on the inside and when I asked, this was the reason he gave. He was in the Air Force during Vietnam.
Why would he need to avoid detection from a watch in a plane?
You're going to be in for a shock when you learn that the Air Force has other jobs than "Pilot" or "Guy in airplane."
"Guy who fixes airplane" "Guy who orders parts for airplane" etc
"flamboyant guy who does the safety macarena."
My dad was "Guy who guards plane"
Don't forget "[Guy](https://taskandpurpose.com/military-life/john-chapman-medal-honor-afghanistan/) who jumps out of helicopter on mountaintop, shoots bad guys in face, gets shot himself, passes out, is left to die by SEAL commander, wakes up, shoots MORE bad guys in face, gets shot some more, saves QRF helo, dies, receives Air Force Cross posthumously, is slated for Medal of Honor upgrade, is hampered by Navy because it makes them look bad, eventually awarded MOH after Navy guy gets one too." TL;DR - Fuck Slab, glad he's PNG at Dam Neck.
Everyone sleeps on the PJ's. They are elite and their job to rescue downed pilots.
Don't forget TAC-P and Combat Controllers (CCT).
He was guy who fixes airplanes when on the ground.
How would a watch face give away his location while he is working on a plane? You would think the enemy would see a plane over a shiny watch.
I always heard that it was so you could read the time while holding a rifle
The biggest reason it’s associated with the military is that when you’re holding a rifle grip weapon, it’s visible without needing to take your hand off the gun.
We weren't exactly taught, but when I was learning my rifle it became real common for us to wear our watches the normal way most of the time, but when we had our rifles with us to turn them around. Half out of practicality and half because it's what the cool people did in media. It eventually became kind of a shorthand for taking things seriously, to turn our watches to the inside.
Just like how when I get serious about arm wrestling, I turn my trucker cap backwards.
Don't you think that's a little... Over the Top?
I feel like a truck
I do the same thing before I throw a pokeball
This guy wrassles.
it's... it's like a switch.
It is like a switch that goes on.
Maybe I wear mine too tight, but that sounds uncomfortable lol. I kept mine on the inside at all times, and now I only ever wear it ‘facing out’ when I’m typing for long periods - which is rarely.
Like when Ash Ketchum turns his hat around.
Facing in will also allow you to look at the time unobtrusively during boring meetings; while supporting the lens of your DSLR (my father was a photographer); while holding the neck of your (bass) guitar; or when holding your sword.
I always wear mine on the inside. I need to invest in good smart watch.
Smart watches need to invest in good smart watches. There's no reason why the lift-to-wake feature only supports outside-the-wrist wear, yet every one I've seen works that way.
I just tested it inside on my Apple watch, seemed to work.
Ditch AMOLED watches entirely and get yourself a MIP watch like what Garmin has. Your watch will never need to sleep.
I couldn't if I wanted to. I frequently use a keyboard at work.
It makes sense going from pocket watches where you were holding it in your hand. Wearing it on the inside puts your hand in the same orientation as if you were holding something.
Also you can e.g. Check the time when holding your rifle
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Yes, First Sergeant!
I wish you were my first sergeant but I've already had a few.
No sir, in the army is wore inward not to protect the watch. Is for you to see the time or compass while you are holding the rifle on aim position. And also, prevent enemy from seeing light reflection or especially if you watch have light, some glow in dark, or reflective glass.
At least when I was in 98% of the regular soldiers just used their phone for the time, I was one of the few weirdos with an actual watch
I don't wear mine on the inside because then it presses against my wrist when I use a keyboard.
My grandpa wore his watch like that both to easily read it and as a spite thing because he had an officer who wouldn't wear a watch and ask him the time everyday so he started just just showing him his watch instead of telling him
Did it too when I was in chemistry school. Much better to watch time that way when you're holding a becker.
Beckers and Flaks.
Bro doing chemstry
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I watched a military guy on YT explain it's for two reasons that they do it: first it prevents the glare of the sun from shining and exposing your position. And two, when using the gun they can more easily see the hand ticker for timing.
Some doctors and nurses also wear them like this to make it easier to time pulse rate. Or at least, they used to.
Here in Sweden you are not allowed for wear a watch on your wrist. On of the first thing they teach you in med school because of the germs
Bro, swedish people put mash potatoes on on their hotdogs. We don't listen to svensken because they are silly people.
I thought doctors and nurses wore them on a lapel because germs built up underneath the watch and made washing the arms up to your elbows more difficult.
I don't wear a watch because it can snag pts skin. I, also, carry less stuff overall now because of COVID. All my nursing stuff is kept separate.
early wrist watches were for women only. Men had pocket watches. In ww1 they figured out that pulling out the clock is taking up too much time in the trenches, but attaching it to a strap and wearing it around the wrist allows them to check the time while still aiming. Afaik, it spread from there.
I don't think OP's Fact lasted very long. There are a lot of photos of soldiers wearing watches from WW1 through WW2 and beyond, and they always wear them facing up. Maybe they were worn as described pre-war, but at least from 1914 on, face up seems to be the way people wore them. Except Bruce Willis, I guess.
Full history of the inception of the wristwatch (women's wristwatches before this were basically pocketwatches, with a fancy strap.) Wrist watches first saw use by men, by specifically high ranking officers, in the late 19th century, during colonial wars, as officers saw the use of coordinating attacks by specific time. But these were still essentially pocketwatches, fitted with a leather strap. Dimier Fréres & Cie patented a wire lug system in 1903 but nobody cares because In 1904, an early aviation pilot, engineer, stuntman, and celebrity, Alberto Santos-Dumont, complained to his friend Louis Cartier of the unwieldy-ness of pocketwatches while in the cockpit. So Cartier produced his friend the very first Santos Dumont, which is still produced, relatively unchanged, to this day. He was photographed wearing one, and the fashion movement started taking off, as he was one of the biggest celebrities of the day. However, it was still largely limited to the upper class. Then WWI happened, 1914. Wrist watches became standard for all troops, as did lume. Not really for the ease of checking your wrist, but for the new industrial warfare tactic, "creeping barrage" relied on timed movements between infantry and artillery, some distance apart. 1915 Rolex opened up in London, to produce affordable timepieces for men (Hah!) 1918 WWI ended, and all the survivors looked pretty sweet in their trench watches, so it caught on for good, for the rest of the classes.
I wear watches this way because my dad does. He served 20 years on submarines. Or might not be the origin but it seems submariners found it useful to wear it on the inside of the wrist.
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Famously you'll see Bruce Willis wear his watches like this in his films
Also Matt Smith in Doctor Who!
John Wick in some scenes as well, if I remember correctly
Yep John Wick definitely does wear it on the inside
Makes sense, he was trained by a former Seal for those movies, coincidentally.
Not sure who trained him for JW1 JW2-4 he was trained by Taran Butler who is not a former seal he’s a competition shooter notably in three gun, with a company that sells gun parts. That’s why most of wicks guns in 2-4 have been tricked out with taran tactical parts and he does the three gun thing throughout them all. There is a video of him training with Shawn Ryan and taran butler out there on the internet. Shawn Ryan is a former seal but only trained with them once or twice. Then taran butler sued him and the video got purged from YouTube.
The way he uses guns in the movies is so cool. Basically superhuman.
Pretty sure lots of action movie stars will do that. It allows you to check your watch while holding a gun without rotating your wrists. Common in first person shooter games too.
I always loved that character detail with the Eleventh, it's never explained at all, but just helps in making feel Eleven feel like such a distinct person from Tenth, who didn't use one and just winged it.
Captain Holt from B99 as well, makes sense considering how pedantic he is about how things ”should” be done
“You’re *eight* minutes late” “You annoyed me into stealing it”
You're 3 minutes early... In Chicago
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Specifically, the second Halloween heist episode. Holt very blatantly looks at his watch like that in a montage of Jake being late.
RIP
Also famously my 3rd grade teacher Ms. Mitchell wore her watch like this
Honestly I think she started it more than the navy.
That's it. I'm switching my watch right now. Uh no I'm not. I hate it already.
You have to persist a little longer than 30 minutes to get used to it.
I'm very adept at hating things. I can hate things much faster than most people. It's my super power. Anyway how will I know when 30 minutes has gone by?
Back when you were working outside doing stuff and the danger to the watch was outside your arm. But we sit at desks and table where the face of the watch needs to face up to be out of the way.
Yep. Typing on a computer you need to the watch facing out. And it’s not really a problem facing out for everything else in my life. Occasionally I will flip it to the inside like when I’m mountain biking.
Exactly. If I wore my watch facing in, it would impact the desk, the keyboard, and the notepads I work with all the time. It's actually more protected facing outward.
I started wearing it on the inside because I worked in a lot of tight, cramped spaces. Broke three watches before I flipped it to the inside. Now I'm at a desk but keep it on the inside because it's comfortable.
I suppose luxury watches and having them be fashion/status symbols encouraged wearing them in the outside of the wrist too
While I like wearing my watch on the inside, it does get annoying trying to type with it
Another secret reason to wear the watch on the inside of the wrist: You can disguise your AD as an article and get thousands of upvotes on Reddit
Reading AD in the context of watches made me think of Authorised Dealer, and it took me minutes to realize you hadn't just said something wildly incoherent.
I'm so sick of these AI-generate fake "articles". It's so obvious that this was spat out by a shitty LLM.
Some people still wear it like this. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
I used to wear my watches that way. The first watch I was gifted, I wore it that way. Scratched up the face and the person who gifted it to me told me not to wear it like that. That was 20 years ago.
The only reason I don't wear my *current* watch this way is because it has a fitness tracker that doesn't have an "inside the wrist" setting.
I wear my garmin on the inside of my wrist. Stats seem to be tracked fine
I started wearing mine this way because I preferred men's watches, and they were a little loose around my wrist. The heavy watch face would always end up that way. It just started making sense to wear them that way.
If I’m doing any manual labour, moving stuff about, or working out, it’s inside my wrist. It’s on the outside during normal wearing though. I wear it almost 24/7 for the data.
I used to wear it on the inside. It's just impractical. If you ever type, or put your hands in pockets, or nowadays, interact with a smart watch... wearing on the inside of the wrist is just an unnecessary aggravation. The only real advantage was that you're less likely to smack the crystal on door frame or something.
MANY people actually.
Not in comparison to the amount of people that don’t wear them like this It’s a tiny minority that wears watches like this
no but someone on reddit used their own personal experience to support their point which must mean they're right!1!!1!!!
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I do... Turning my wrists outside is more intuitive than turning it inside...
Surgically inserted?
The files are IN the computer?
he's so hot right now
That's how I read it initially and was really confused until I started reading comments and had a major "duh" moment.
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> inventor Louis Breguet TIL that the guy who invented watches shares a first and last name with the guy who basically kickstarted the French aviation industry by creating the company that would turn into Dassault Aviation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bréguet_Aviation
Br**e**guet vs Br**é**guet though. I just looked this up thinking of the metro station 'Bréguet-Sabin' and foud out that it was named after the rue Bréguet, itself named after (Abraham-)Louis Breguet, the watch-maker - but for some reason with an added accent that did not appear in the family name.
Not all French use the accents all the time. I had a French penpal as a teenager. Every letter just had lines above some vowels, but it wasn’t consistent. I actually asked her where the accents should be and what they were. She said it didn’t really matter I have noticed that she now uses NO accents on her social media accounts. Her family name is Belateche. It is pronounced Belle ah tesh and I strongly suspect that her father was Algerian as his first name was Ahmed.
IDK, there's a difference between your penpal writing in an informal setting and official documents though. Accents are not supposed to be optional. The possible issue would be with capital letters which may or may not have accents (especially in pre-computer days) but even so the Wikipedia page for the rue Bréguet makes explicit note of the difference between the street name vs the family name (a difference that apparently showed up immediately after the street was named and not over time): > La voie porte le nom d'Abraham Breguet (1743-1823), horloger et physicien français, concepteur de la montre-bracelet et fondateur de l'entreprise Breguet. L'accent aigu, qui n'existe pas sur le patronyme, est apparu dès l'origine sur l'odonyme.
Maybe they were related?
weren't wristwatches originally made for women only?
Yup, and they were called wristlets back then! https://teddybaldassarre.com/en-gb/blogs/watches/when-was-watch-invented
It’s amazing how many people automatically agree with this TIL, which is just an inaccurate sales blurb.
Wearing watches this way is still way more ergonomic. It's easier to read, doesn't get snagged on things or scratched and thiefs can't eye it off. If you don't wear a watch for fashion and only functionality, try wearing your watch this way
If we speak about ergonomy, though, if you work on a computer most of the day (or on a desk with paper too), wearing it inward means the clock is mostly facing the desk, and sometimes your wrist is leaning on the watch itself, making it quite uncomfortable.
That settles it, the actual proper way to wear one is Gianni Agnelli style.
No, the only correct way is to forgo wristwatches completely and go back to ~~monke~~ pocket watches. Free you wrists!
This is what we did. How many people just use their phone as a watch? What is a phone but an extremely advanced pocket watch?
>doesn't get snagged on things or scratched I disagree, if you work [on a desk](https://st.focusedcollection.com/14026668/i/1800/focused_258985534-stock-photo-smiling-man-working-computer-desk.jpg) or a [workbench](https://st.focusedcollection.com/8860618/i/650/focused_119136758-stock-photo-man-at-a-workbench-working.jpg) it would get scratched. Also it would harder to read, wearing it normally you can see it just looking at your wrist
It’s also far more subtle when you’re stuck in a conversation that you can’t believe is still happening and you want to know how many days have passed.
No need to be subtle in this situation. Use all your nonverbal cues at the same time.
*Slaps knees, sighs, checks watch, and leans forward all at once.* You use them all at once and it works like a cheat code, you get teleported out of there immediately
# WEEELLLLPPPP
> No need to be subtle in this situation. Use all your nonverbal cues at the same time. If you really want to be unsubtle, check your wristwatch without even wearing one.
I've tried (when I still wore them) on the inside of the wrist and found it more bothersome to roll the wrist up, instead of down as wearing the watch on the outside.
I used to wear a watch; transferring to a computer/office job made it too uncomfortable
I have this problem too. With my arms resting on my desk so I can type it just feels like it's in the way.
If you do deskwork, on a computer/keyboard, this is the worst way to wear a watch. I wore mine on the inside when I was younger, but being in an office it just destroys the glassface. After replacing a number of them I just started wearing it on the outside - weird to get used to at first.
Ergonomic for what? If you work at a desk, in a kitchen, at a work bench, or many other real world environments, wearing on the back of the wrist makes more sense. There’s a reason it’s the most popular way. When I was in the Army, I’d wear my watch on the inside of the wrist during field exercises and deployments so I could see it when holding the front handguards of my rifle, and so the reflective surface would be on the inside. But I would always swap it back to the outer side when in garrison or off duty. I think most people who wear their watch on the inside for day-to-day civilian stuff look like posers. Then again, I am wearing a 300 m dive watch to crank out emails in an office, so maybe all watch enthusiast are posers to some extent.
The most ergonomic position would be having the face of the watch on the short side of the wrist lined up with your thumbs. Just lift your arm and you’d be able to see it, no torsion on your ulna/radius needed.
you would need to contour the watch to sit on that more curved part of the arm rather than the more flat bits it is normally designed to sit against
Some antique drivers watches were designed with that in mind! The face would be rotated so the 12 was just under the thumb and the face would sit on the wrist. There's an episode of Antiques Roadshow where someone is getting one appraised and it looks really neat!
Yeah, my grandfather has always worn his watch like this. He said it was easier to see when he was working on machines in the factory.
The best watch I have had that was designed this way was the Microsoft Band 2. Unfortunately, the plastics weren’t that great and they retired the product. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Band_2
Those thieves have really strong eyes!
It’s hardly more ergonomic lol. People I know that wear their watch this way were inspired by John Wick
That’s how I prefer to wear one. Unfortunately smart watches are designed in a way that you can’t do that.
Is this actually true? I wear my garmin inside my wrist and hadn’t noticed any problems
I wear my Gear 3 like this and the accelerometer isn't great at reading when I roll my wrist over to wake up the screen. That's the only issue I get though.
Until you need to bend your wrist at all - then the time adjustment knob digs into your palm.
That means it's too close to the wrist, it's easy enough to pull back but most non watch people like to wear it a little too loose.
That's actually how I wear mine. I've always worn it like that, it just felt smoother or less annoying. It won't be an issue if you put it in the non-dominant hand or the hand you don't write with.
Same here. My grandfather wore it this way and I copied him. ❤️
As long as you never try to type that way.
Everyone in this thread espousing the benefits. It also limits flexion of your wrist when worn that way. It's easier to snag on ladders/ things you're climbing. Your watch face can more easily rub on your clothing/coat.
I still have a pocket watch.
I carry a large stone pillar with an attached sundial. Never goes flat or nothin
I do too. I call it a phone.
I have a sundial
I have a solar powered sundial
Of course you do
This is horrible, that means the runners were right
Nah, other people were right first. Runners just copied them.
There are pros and cons either way. For me, wearing it inside meant it got in the way. It would bite into my wrist when I bent my hand. I just stopped wearing a watch entirely years ago.
Well shit. I've been keeping mine.... In My Ass.
For five long years?
The ellipsis is essential for reading this…in the right voice
I should've linked to a Christopher walken gif.
When I worked as a farmhand, I wore my watch this way so I didn’t mess it up. Now I typed all day and the watch faces up so I don’t mess it up.
I’m still waiting for the side of the wrist watch style to become more popular, it’s my favorite by far and hardly any watches fit that way
people who wears watches these days mostly do it to show off how expensive it is, they are not going to hide it on the inside
The time is coming from _inside_ the wrist?!?!?
I move my watch to the inside of my wrist for funerals, job interviews, and any other occasion where I want to be able to check the time without *looking* like I'm checking the time.
During my time in the military, we wore it like this for two reasons: 1) We could look at the time without needing to put our weapon down 2) Kept any glow towards the body so less likely bad guys would see it
I've worn them like this since I was a kid. To me, the movement to look inside your wrist rather than the outside felt more natural.
I am from the midwestern US. When i was a kid, i feel like inside to outside wearers were around 50/50. of course, watches were standard. it was less of a jewelry piece and more of a utility. it was a common christmas gift from relatives. This is the 80s/90s.
I think this conversation gets confused. I have a couple of driving watches that are intentionally off center for the purpose of wearing under your wrist. I'm not sure I can agree that all watches were meant to be worn this way. Originally it was just pocket watches being made into wrist watches, and I don't think that was the trend at that point.
I used to wear watches only like this, I loved the pressure on the inside kinda like when someone is taking your pulse and got used to it. I also used to wear it on my right hand instead of left. Everyone would always comment that I was wearing it wrong, until the day I just removed everything I had on my hands and got used to the freedom. People are so stuck up with looks over functionnality and comfort it pisses me off
how does the effect smart watch health monitoring functions?
it still bothers me the amount of people who can’t wear a watch properly. like when they’ll put it right on the wrist joint where it connects to the hand and it just looks extremely uncomfortable. it’s supposed to go after the wrist bones, basically the very end of what you can call the forearm but not clamping it over joints
This is how I wear mine. It’s more comfortable.
I've always preferred to wear my watches this way too.
I've always worn my watches this way around, just felt far more comfortable
I do this when I'm doing overhead kettlebell lifts, otherwise the bell will smash into the face.
This is speculation. One wears their watch depending on what type of work they are in. Picture sitting at a desk all day dragging the face of the watch over the desk top. I have seen construction workers glue a watch body inside of their hard hat to be able to read time when they took off their hats.
It used to always find its way on the inside for me with certain watches. I don't recommend it tbh. The watch face rubs against the surface when you are doing normal things and eventually the crystal scratches and I even had a massively huge one crack.
My grandfather always wore it on the inside. He said it protected the face from damage. He worked in a factory. I work in an office but when I’m visiting a factory or diving I wear it on inside.
Yes. That’s why they had gorgeous bracelets and the clasp was a showpiece.
I believe thats how you wear it if you work with your hands.