On which hand do you wear your watch?

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NamerOfStars · Accepted Answer

The correct  hand  is neither, as watches on worn on the WRIST (or in the pocket, if it's a pocketwatch). The correct wrist is... also neither. Traditionally, they were worn on the left, because the dial to wind them was on the right, so if it was on your right wrist, you wouldn't be able to see when to stop winding, unless you wore it upside down or had transparent hands (somehow). As we now have these handy things called "batteries" that remove the need for winding watches, and have had them in common circulation since at least a decade before I was born, it doesn't really matter.

D_Bone_Steak · Accepted Answer

I've been taught that anything "girly" goes on the left-hand side. A wedding ring has taught me that I just simply hate having anything on me like that anymore. The shit would hurt me during weightlifting. So my $1,000 watch and wedding band have found a place way in the back of my safe... a safe I only open to play with the guns. My stupid phone tells me the time and lets me watch porn when I'm dropping a shit into the toilet. I just grew out of it around my 20's somewhere.

jennifer_bloom · Accepted Answer

If I'm at work I would wear it on the left side because the right hand is easier to use for manual tasks and that is my dominant hand. But if I'm on vacation, I wear it on my right hand because its the hand I find easier to use and I don't have too much physical things I need to save my right hand for on a trip that I can't add another purpose to it.

Curiosity2006 · Accepted Answer

I wear it on my middle hand.

humanearth · Answer

Left hand when I used to wear one. Right now I carry a 70 year pocket watch where ever I leave the house

Anonymous · Answer

I’m left handed. I wear it usually on my right wrist.

I have an Apple Watch - I was switching it up because of allergies, but find a good band. - I just got an analog watch (I have wanted for ages) as an early Christmas present, so I’m wearing both. Analog in the left, AW on the right (for biometrics, phone calls, etc).

Ill_made_Knight · Answer

Always wore it on the left, but stopped wearing period because of job requirements... machines give zero fucks about your wrist hand or fingers should that watch snag on a gear or chain in the industrial equipment

mandyfire98 · Answer

On my ankle. I just sit down and bend my ankle up to my face to tell time. Super inconvenient but it's stylish and plus people will think I'm breaking house arrest.

SamK20 · Answer

Growing up I wore it on my right, now that I've grown some I've discovered it's impractical for me to wear it on that side, now it's left only.

For example, when riding a motorcycle it's easy to remove your left hand and take a glance because the throttle is on the right, and when you're wielding a rifle you can swap the watch face to the bottom of your wrist and see the time while holding position.

BCA6010 · Answer

Left wrist. I wore a watch mainly in the army, and while I don't think there was necessarily an official standard for it, it just made sense to have it on my non-dominant/off-hand so I could see it peripherally without dropping sight picture.

NathanDavis · Answer

I never wear them, and I do not like them one bit...  however, I know that if for whatever reason I had to wear them, it would be on my left side because that's what would feel right to me

goaded · Answer

Left, 15 years ago. I learned my lesson 40 years ago when I hit someone and broke the watch on my right hand.

DizzyDesii · Answer

That would bother me. I dont wear watches. I buy them for others but i dont like em. One dude bought a watch for me and my moms been wearing it ever since 😂

Beatrix7 · Answer

i use my right hand for writing for mostly everything except wanking my ex or wearing my watch so left hand i put my watch on i mostly prefer rings jewlery on my left hand to

Wish4UrB00ty · Answer

I have always wanted to wear nice watches… I wear them on my left hand because it is my dominant hand but I only use it for fine tune things… like telling the time.

Sour-rose · Answer

Lol watch... should probably get one seeing as if I take one look at my phone and there's one notification I don't get often, I'll probably get lost in it.

snowboarder720 · Answer

You should wear a watch on your non dominate wrist. You should know the difference between a right or left handed watch by the position of the crown dial.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

Neither and, if I DO wear one, it's on my wrist!

bolverk · Answer

You usually wear a watch on the none dominant hand, that is right handers wear it on the left wrist, left handers on the right wrist, but ultimately it is where you find it the most comfortable.

exitseven · Answer

When I used to wear a watch I would wear it on my right hand. I am left handed.

OfMiceandMen · Answer

I wear it on the left. Got one of those GPS watches so I can tell where I am at all times...🤪

PinkRose24 · Answer

I don't wear watches but if I did, I would wear it on the left hand since I'm right handed. I don't want it to get in the way when I'm writing something down.

12Volt · Answer

My watch is a piece of shit Chinese smartwatch. I keep it in the drawer because it refuses to charge.

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

I no longer wear a watch. When i did, i wore it on my left. Eventually i switched to pocket watches. Now, of course, my cell phone.

jamesgoldman · Answer

Right and inside of my wrist, the gentleman's way  He only needs the time if he desires it and these days it's more discreet to avoid watch thieves apparently

trina_x · Answer

i dont wear watches rlly  i want a smartwatch tho id probaby go with right

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

The left hand for right-handed people and right hand for left-handed people.

MCheetah · Answer

Right hand, cause I'm (mostly) right handed, even though I'm really ambidextrous.

Adam1978 · Answer

Left wrist and facing upwards, some people wear it downwards.

sage2021 · Answer

Since I am right ganded, it felt comfortable wearing it on the right wrist.

Pudsmucker · Answer

Not really there is no opinion of where you where you watch. I prefer on the left hand. I am a right-handed person that I am constantly using to do things with and the watch would probably get caught.

DancingQueen16 · Answer

Usually my right hand because I use my right hand for pretty much everything

XXblack88 · Answer

Any time I've worn one I always wear it on my right hand.

loveslongnails · Answer

I stopped wearing a watch when got out of college.

tfan1 · Answer

I’m right handed but I wear my watch on my Left wrist 🙂

captain_voidwalker · Answer

Your off hand is usually the better option so if your right handed wear it on the left, if your left handed on the right.

Iron_Man · Answer

When I had my Rolex watch, it would be on my left wrist

Wiredone · Answer

I stopped wearing a watch when I got a cell phone. It just gets in the way of my work

BJP21 · Answer

Typically the left since the setting is more easy to access.

Surely · Answer

Usually on my left. Though sometimes I put it on my right wrist.

OddBeMe · Answer

Usually the rule is opposite your dominant hand so you don’t scratch it up.

Twalli · Answer

Despite the fact that I am left handed, I wear it on my left wrist

TrillXHippy · Answer

I don’t wear watches and even if I did every single time I did I would cover it up

Deserter · Answer

I tell time with my left and knock your lights out with my right

Savage9821 · Answer

I was always told to wear it on my left wrist because I write with my right hand so I guess it would be in the way

Anonymous · Answer

For men left and women right. That's how most people wear it.

savydv · Answer

I wear watch on my left hand. Right hand is my dominant hand, used for writing or any other stuff. But I think it is a personal choice, nothing wrong or right.

HippieVeganJewslim · Answer

If I wear one, right, as I'm left-handed. The watch wouldn't disturb my writing, eating, etc.

dustybiker · Answer

Your less dominant hand.

Account · Answer

Left wrist.

BCRanger10 · Answer

When I do, it's usually on my left hand.

curiousaboutthis · Answer

Left wrist, bc I'm right handed.

Audiofox · Answer

The pocket hand because who tf wears a watch?

whereismyjohnny · Answer

I wear it on my left wrist.

musicbrain5 · Answer

On my left wrist.

Brainsbeforebeauty · Answer

When I wear one, on my right wrist

Agape93 · Answer

Left, with the dial on the underside of the wrist

AsaKyo · Answer

I don't wear watches lmao

Date_a_Snob · Answer

I don't normally wear a watch

DaveToo · Answer

Left, because I'm right handed.

LiamJHayden · Answer

I have never worn a watch.

Kinkyhubby · Answer

My nondominate hand. Which is my left hand

Stevefiveo · Answer

Right because I am left handed.

nolabels · Answer

Left. I'm left-handed.

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