Watch where you…put!

“Tick tock ding dong and thats the way to go!
Always steady never fast never slow!
When it goes can never be back!
That’s time! Never white never black!!”

There is one thing which nowadays people wear only because it is there! Of course it does have some more work but practically it is just an accessory which is not necessary like most accessories are!

Both women and men wear it with pride! But which hand that is the eternal question!

keep a look out for the answer!

read on!

The answer was in the ‘LOOK OUT’ or Watch!

Of course I am speaking about wrist watches!

Everyone now has a mobile or sits in front of the system rarely does anyone now has to pick up the hands to see the time from the wrist watch!

Which is why it is now just a fashion accessory unless your profession depends on it or unless the watch has got itself upgraded like the Samsung gear or Apple watch or like most smart watches when it is a health monitoring device!

It is also been upgraded to be your calculator and alarm and memo recorder!

I use my Apple and One Plus watch alternatively to the hilt! Including messaging and calling and also navigation! Not to mention listening to music or audiobook via the connected airpods or Buds!

In the transition between normal digital watches and the smart watches there was a time when the whole watch wearing was just a fashion accessory since the phone would tell you the correct time anyway!

Without an upgrade it is just a piece of jewel and treated like that!
Some of the most costly watches are mere jewels which show just time! But they do draw attention which is the chief aim now!

But if you have not upgraded the watch then in all probability you use your watch only as a watch which is why you may forget to wear them or do not charge them!

Now which hand do you wear your watch?


Traditionally, men wear watches on their left hand. This is because most watches are designed with the stem (the part used to adjust the time) on the right side, making it easier for right-handed people to manipulate it with their dominant hand!

Traditionally, wristwatches are derived from pocket watches, specifically from a particular type of pocket watch called savonnette. Instead of having the crown at twelve o’clock, these timepieces had it at three o’clock. In addition, they typically mounted a spring-loaded cover that protected the dial and opened with a push of a button – and this cover had a hinge at nine o’clock.

For this reason, modern wristwatches carry the crown at three o’clock, which is the most comfortable position if you wear a watch on your left wrist. With regular arm movements, the crown doesn’t bother you pointing against your skin. But if you wear the watch on the opposite wrist, the problem arises!

The crown, by its very nature protruding and knurled, scratches against the skin, producing annoying redness – so several watchmakers decided to provide a unique service to their customers and offered left-handed watches, where the movement was mounted precisely the opposite way round, with the crown mounted at nine o’clock instead of three o’clock: after all, this is not a particularly difficult modification, given that all that is needed is to rotate the movement 180 degrees and apply a dial and, if necessary, the date rings, which are specially made!

It has also been suggested though that those who wear the non smart watches by choice on the right side have psychological reasons for wearing a watch on one arm rather than the other!

It is said that they are often correlated with the two universes of the brain – the creative and the rational, thus suggesting that those who wear their watches by choice on the right arm are more creative than those who wear them on the left! Just the very act of the choice of your hands can make you a creative person!

Then again ladies traditionally have been wearing the watches on the right hand! This is of course an observation only and not a gender thing!
The reason presented here is from a watch wearer website! Not my opinion!

The reason is apparently intuitable: traditionally, women’s watches were smaller (and had a less accurate watch movement) than men’s and represented more of a style accessory than a real functional object. They were treated more as ornaments.

Therefore, since many more women are right-handed rather than left-handed, they tended to wear on their left wrist not watches but other jewelry such as bracelets and chains, which could scratch the watch!
That’s why many women, to avoid this problem, started wearing watches on their right wrist instead of their left, even being right-handed. And even if the size of women’s watches has increased with time – nowadays, many women wear watches traditionally considered as “men’s” in shape and size – they still wear them on the right side for this exact reason!

The modern smart watches may have either a crown or knobs on the side which by design are placed in neutral positions so that you can wear them in any hand of your choice! Also by default these watches do not differentiate between men and women! They are all unisex watches and rightly so!

Of course the choice of colours still sets them apart but then that is a personal opinion! So which hand do you use? For wearing the watch I meant!

If you find that funny they you will certainly find celebrity Om Prakash Chibber funny!

Now set alarm in the watch of either left or right hand and sleep!

Shubh Ratri!

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