Wait a minute here. Do people really wear watches like this?

Are you serious?

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>>155316249
yep. its worn face down to prevent you from glancing at it all day. you have to make a conscience choice to look at the face. If you've never worn a watch you won't get it. but they can be HUGE distractions when you're bored and make it seem like time stands still.

its to prevent clumsy retards from scratching the face if you bump into things

That's how women wear it, so that they could make that cute dorsiflexion gesture whenever they need to look at the time. Men wear it on the other side so that when you look at it you have to straighten your wrist and clench your fist in an aggressive masculine gesture.

Take this knowledge with you, and use it wisely in your eventual transition, friend.

>>155316249
yes, to protect it from scratches.
Most military personal and /k/ wear it that way.

>>155316772
>transition

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Girls wearing watches is my fetish.

>>155319543
That's an oddly specific fetish, anon

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>>155320186
My penis likes what it likes. I got a little excited when I saw the thread, only to be disappointed at the lack of content.

>>155316249
This is a very good indicator of how often OP crawls out of his basement.

>>155316249
It's normal for women to wear it like this. My mom does it.

>>155316249
It's a women thing.

People do it all the time you dumbfuck

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>>155320481
here

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>>155320481
Good taste.

>>155316249
yes, so it doesn't accidentally reflect light and gives away where you are hiding.

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>>155321239
>>155322652
Nice.

>>155320481
Why is she wearing it upside down? Is she brain damaged?

>>155316249
I wear it like that since it was easier on my wrist when I got dropped in basic.

Habit just stuck

>>155323096
Nah. She has it the right way if you were to extend her arm out and look down.

>>155320685
>>155320737
>>155316772
I wear watch that way.

Why is Nyamo so much hotter than Yukari?

Who the fuck even wear watches anymore. You've got your phone to tell you time and date.

>>155323381

>Owning a phone

>>155316772
What way does Pat from that SNL skit wear his/her watch? This could be groundbreaking.

>>155316249
My elementary teacher used to wear it like this.

>>155323381
This.

If you're not a shut-in, you should have a phone. If you are one, you obviously don't need a watch.

>>155323381
>>155323463
Leave it to /a/ to be as unaware of fashion as possible. Maybe you don't want to be seen in public with your $25 watch, rightfully so too, but people with actual watches wear them as an accessory instead of only as a timepiece.

>>155323556
Is this why men wear watches much more often than women?

A fashion accessory for the wrist is called a 'bracelet', Anon.

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>>155323556
>accessorizing

>>155323676
Good luck showing off your wealth with a bracelet as a man.

>>155323556
You are talking in a board that spend most of their time screaming in threads about how unrealistic and pandering the dressing of female characters are despite that's exactly how women dress up in countries that matters, which exclude shit sandnigger countries.

Fashion is based on pandering for both the wearer and the intended viewer.
Only basement dwelling retards in 4chan who haven't been out in society for years don't get it.

>>155323676
>Is this why men wear watches much more often than women?
Yes, a nice watch is a men's accesory.
It's why some people only wear fancy watches to events and parties, it's part of the outfit.
Seriously, how could you not know this?

>>155323768
The intended viewer for anime is not /a/.

>>155323381
>2017
>submitting to the botnet

>>155323241
Me too.

>>155320685
My mom used to wear her watch like this too. This is definitely a women thing

I'm so glad our world progressed to the point we don't need watches anymore. Every time I was wearing one it was a huge annoyance.

>>155323381
I'm not gonna pull out my phone to know the time, that's just dumb

>>155316249
As far as I know, women are supposed to wear their watches on their right hands, while males are always supposed to wear them on their left. And yes, women can wear their watches like that, if the watch is thin.

If you have tiny wrists and/or the strap is too big, the weight will make the watch face that way naturally. You end up either readjusting the watch all day or being lazy and get used to checking it like that.

I have a plain, brown leather silver faced watch.

I feel naked without it

>>155323787
Because I don't care about men's fashion? It's not like I ever speak to any anyway, unless cashiers count.

>>155319377
I don't know if this is true or not but I believe military members would wear watches like this so they can check the time without having to remove their hand off their rifle.

>>155323946
>I don't care about men's fashion but I'll speak as though I'm on authority on the subject only to backpedal later
Classic /a/.

>>155323893
You always wear the watch on your non-dominant hand, so you can check the time while doing something else with your other hand.

>>155323381
I recently bought a nice Seiko watch to use on special occasions and meetings.
It's just a way for men to wear an acceptable accesory.

>>155319377
>Most military personal and /k/ wear it that way.

Pretty sure the rationale for military wearing it this way, is that they can hold their gun and also read the time this way.

>>155323381
I have never seen someone pull out their phone to check the time and not look like a complete fucking tool doing it.

I don't know but it's super cute.

>>155323988
I speak like I'm an authority on every subject. It makes people take you more seriously and, when you're Anon, has precisely zero consequences.

You should try it.

>>155324061
The satisfaction of knowing you're retarded is more than enough.

>>155323946
Whether you care or not is irrelevant. You should at least be aware so that you don't make yourself look like an idiot.

/a/ - Watches and Fashion

>caring about the arbitrary human measurements of time
I do not need to know what time it is to other people, I just do what I feel like when I feel like it.

>>155324081
I'm anonymous. I really don't care if I look like an idiot for precisely one (1) thread.

>>155324176
I like your style, Anon.

>>155324176
>That's how you end up friendless like what you are right now, anon.

I remember this thread circa 2014.

>>155324289
Every repost is a repost of a repost of a repost of a repost

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>>155316249
>wearing watches
>using them as accessory
>using any accessory at all
>2000+sqrt(289)

>>155324176
Spoken like a true husk who has nothing in his life.

>>155323096
Look at your wrist.
Now put your hand next to your head.
Think how your wrist just moved.

>>155323381
Just look at this pleb.

>>155324439
He's practicing true hedonism without a time table for future plans. He has the innate ability to live in the present and I admire him for that because I'm always thinking about the past.

>>155324287
>>155324439
>needing things other than your own mind and body
Plebs, all of you.

>>155324340
spoken like a pleb that never leaves the house nor has any reason to know what time it is

I actually feel bad for you.

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Who Raketa here?

>>155324563
You live in the present regardless.

>>155324594
>he needs his mind
Who /soul/ here?

>be in high school
>surrounded by people
>wear a cheap digital watch/stopwatch
>set it to line up exactly with the bell so you can count the seconds until you can leave
>if things get bad you can play with the stopwatch, trying to pause the timer at exactly five seconds
>focus on the clock to ignore all the people around you and stay sane

Ten years later I still wear digital watches. Actually I need a new one, but they're getting kinda hard to find.

>>155324790
>he isnt a figment of his own imagination
Casual.

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>>155324865
Watchfags, everyone.

>>155324625
Zashiki-warashi masterrace.

u mad outsidefag?

>>155324865
>digital
How retro do you want to go?
http://www.casio.com/products/watches/classic/f91w-1

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>>155323008
Little more.

>>155324790
>having a soul
>not being merely the quantum links of his mind

>>155324942
>>155325169
>he isn't the entire universe
How silly of you, me.

>>155325185
>he isn't every infinite possible existence in every universe, plane, timeline, dimension, reality, parallel world, alternate world, and disconnected existence that is separated completely and totally from our own existences by everything but himself
I sent someone back to some point in your past to rebuke you, good luck finding it.

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>>155325019
FWIW, this is what I wear (pic related, the W-59). Same size and shape as the F-91, but I think the layout is a bit better. Additionally, it is wate resistant down to 50m, while the F-91 is not even rated to be worn in the shower (I understand it is very waterproof, but casio themselves say that watches with the WR rating of the F-91 are not safe to be worn in the shower or even when washing your hands, it's in the manual that comes with their watches and posted online here: http://www.casio-intl.com/asia/en/wat/water_resistance/)

>>155316249
are you retarded
that's how women wear watches

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Problem is, even when a character canonically wears a watch, fanart seldom includes it. One of the things that drives me nuts about Pokemon fanart in particular

>>155323381
In my case I use one for my job as I'm a physicians and we use it to look at time, take heart rate and breathing rate, as taking out a phone is in some hospital forbidden or is an unprofessional way, other time is practical to look at your wrist and have the time without taking your phone each time and also piece of accessory for some

>>155325392
Women are fucking idiots then.

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>>155316249
Yes, when I was a kid, everyone used their casios like that because Hannibal Smith. I use it like that when I ride my road bike.

>>155316249

No. This is a very unusual way to wear a watch no matter where you are in the world. Almost all people who wear watches wear them normally, with the dial facing outward, not inward as in that picture.

Observe the way people wear their watches next time you are out in public.

The character depicted in your image has her watch drawn in that way to specifically indicate that she is a little weird. Wearing a watch like this is not quite as eccentric as carrying a pocket watch, but it is close.

>>155319377

No. This is not a military thing. Ask about it in /k/ and you will be aggressively ridiculed. I see dozens of soldiers in the airport when I travel every week, and 80% of them are wearing a 6900-type Casio G-Shock in the normal way, facing outward. The current military solution to scratch or impact damage to watches is to wear durable watches, like those G-Shocks. The remainder are wearing other watches, in the normal way, facing outward. I spend a lot of time checking out the watches people wear when I am in public and I have never once seen any military personnel wearing a watch facing inwards.

>>155320685
>>155325392

No. I've seen a couple of women in the airport wearing their watches like that, and hundreds wearing them normally. It is certainly more common in women, as I have only once seen a man wearing it that way. But it is by no means common, even among women.

>>155323724

Indeed. You could wear a two-pound bracelet of 24k gold on your wrist and it would only just be in the ballpark of the wealth you can display with a mid-range steel-cased Swiss luxury watch.

>>155323893

No. The standard way to wear a watch is on the non-dominant hand, regardless of gender.

>>155324052
>>155323984

No. This is not part of any military doctrine. Additionally, if you have ever held a rifle, you will understand readily that this position does not help you read the time at all.

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Rin wears a Cartier Tank in 18k gold. Notice how she wears it in the normal fashion, dial facing outward, on her left wrist, because she is not culturally and socially maladjusted.

>>155329336
>Indeed. You could wear a two-pound bracelet of 24k gold on your wrist

You'd also look like a faggot.

>>155329961
what if you also had a purple suit and a cane?

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>>155329398
Jesus fucking Christ.

>>155316249
Aren't those kinda out of date?
I haven't seen anyone wearing them in ages.

>>155316249
Yes, but only for small watches.

>>155329398
Where does Rin get the money to buy something like that?

>>155329336
the fuck it doesn't. you can read your watch great with it facing in while holding a long gun

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>>155323842
>>155323241
Faggots

>>155316249
>Do people really wear watches like this?
Yeah, for women's watches with nice bands it looks better to just treat the band like a bracelet and hide the face.

>>155331403
She's the sole successor of an ancient lineage of wealthy mages who live in a goddamn mansion. What did you expect?

Also,

>I spend a lot of time checking out the watches people wear when I am in public

ITT: Literal fucking autism.

>>155329336
You're overthinking it a tad IMHO.
I've always wore my watches on my left wrist, with that girl.
It's just more convenient that way, since it's the gesture that is the 'easiest" for my brain, and the movement made to watch what time it is is faster than facing upward.
>saving time + energy

Most people wear them with screen turned up because it's the standard way, like you see in watches commercials and movies.

But most of the times when you check time (waking, driving, lying down, watching a movie)
your arms will laying by your sides/
turned in a way that make it faster to read time than if it was facing the other way.

It's just more convenient, saves precious time and energy (and the risk of bumping into something/someone by making that
"movement you make with your arm when you watch the time"

So unless you want to show-off your expensive and classy watch, it's just inconvenient in most situations to wear it "commercial style".

Yeah non-native speaker...

>>155332123
>I've always wore my watches on my left wrist, with that girl.

meant like the the girl in OP's picture

>>155332123

It is not "commercial style". It is just the normal way of wearing a watch. You can wear it upside down if you want to, but it will never be the normal way.

>>155331571

Go and do as I said. Ask in /k/ and you will find that you are aggressively ridiculed for suggesting it.

>>155331069
>>155331403

It is quite attractive on her, in a way that it never could be on new money.

>>155316249
Girls reflex when they look at their hands is to look at the inside of their hands while men look at top of their hands.

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>>155332193
Well yeah it's the norm to wear it facing up, even if it's some convenient.

Like it's the norm for girls to wear earrings, but a minority doesn't.

And I went to Japan a few time but not once thought "hey let's check how people wear their watches, and judge them based on that"

Better things to do...

I don't get why people would be upset about something so unimportant...

>>155332836
>I don't get why people would be upset about something so unimportant...

I don't think anyone is upset.

>>155331403
pleasing old men of course

>>155331833
>ITT: Literal fucking autism.

Judging others around you based on their appearance and the accessories they wear/own is literally what most normal people do and is basically the opposite of autism. Rich people do it especially hard, and judge others based on their physical possessions alone.

People with autism wear fucking new balance shoes and use their DS to check the time. Generally they're too busy playing Mario or slamming their heads into the wall to notice what others are wearing.

>>155333320

I wear New Balance shoes and use a $2000 German pilot watch to check the time.

>>155333542
Do you also play flight simulators with a $100,000 rig and never smile when you do so.? That sounds just like a flight sim enthusiast.

>>155333786

Nah, last flight simulator rig I had was a 486SX with 16 MiB of memory and it was 20 years ago.

>>155316564
Drunk me and my fucked up watch face can attest to this

>>155333814
You chose the path of sanity early. Me and my roommate have a running gag of trying to find flight simulator pilots that are smiling. You just can't find it. They never smile in a picture of their rig.

>>155329398
>IIII
Goddamn watchmakers and their traditions trigger me so hard. Just use IV like the rest of us. Pisses me off every time I see it.

>>155333926

If you use "IIII", then you have four indices with only "I", four with a "V", and four with an "X". Very balanced.

HOMOS uses "IV" sometimes, I think, because they are Bauhaus degenerates.

>>155323241
And I drink water when I'm thirsty

>>155333320
No, sperglord, spending a lot of time obsessively checking out watches is pure autism.

Normal is actually talking to people and making eye contact.

>>155334066

I don't think you spend much time in airports. Nobody wants to talk in airports unless it's to solve some problem.

>>155316249
Fucking shit goddamn kid. Do you even had a mom?

>>155334010
Jesus, where did a guy like you get such good taste?

>>155334298

Heavy exposure to Kirara adaptations.

>>155334066
You've never seen a coca cola executive badmouth a guy that wore the wrong tie pin to a pepsi executive while they're both drinking coke.

>>155334049
Me too

>>155334372
No, I haven't, but I've also never heard a Coca-Cola executive literally sperg all over 4chan about tie clips and the precise number of men who wear which ones and how.

>>155334500
>tie clips
Tie pins. We're not neaderthals.

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>>155334372
Pepsi is better though.

>>155334890
Pepsi board members drink exclusively coca cola because that is the climate of their socio-economic field. They do it because others do it with the maybe hundred of colas they drink a year.

>>155316249
Holy shit, and I thought I'd never see another person wear a watch like that, even in anime. Personally, it's a lot easier to look at the time like that. Force of habit, I suppose.

Am I doomed to be forever poor if I've been wearing the same old $40 Seiko watch my dad was going threw out for fifteen years?

Phones are perfectly acceptable to use the time nowadays in almost all situations.
If you're at a family gathering or a business meeting where looking rude counts, then you have the watch.
I hate the feeling of a watch on my skin personally, only ever wear one if I'm dressed up.
It's important to have a nice watch, not so important to wear it all the time.

>>155323381
Two reasons: One being the ban on phones in my workplace, second is that it doubles as jewelry.
Seriously, everybody looks at you differently when you own a nice watch, makes it easy to pretend to be a normie.

>>155335305
>still have the same Seiko clock for 12 years.
I feel you. Don't think too much about it. It's just a watch, so who gives a shit.

>>155334890
>to be continued
I'm still waiting. It'll be four years soon.

>>155316249
No, it's not just a Japanese thing.

>>155323278
She isn't.

I wore my watch like that when I was in the military as did a lot of other people.

I've never heard of it being a specifically male or female thing or a regional thing.

It's less common than the other way but not near as uncommon as you seem to think.

>>155335175
I never drink cola because energy drinks are better.

>>155336090
That's fine but you'll never fit into high society.

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>>155316249
>>155316249
That's how watches in the metro games are worn

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>>155316249

/k/ is full of shit, I tried it with my shotgun and you can absolutely see the face without moving your arm. I guess if you are a tier 1 operator operating chris costa style by fully extending your arm it wouldn't work but who cares about those fags

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>not keeping your watch in your rectum

Teachers wear it like that so they can see the time but their student can't.