Tradition places the watch on the left wrist, and yet ... It's only a tradition, based on the greatest number! We summarize? To choose which side to wear your watch, follow our advice and analyze your habits. The only imperative is comfort!
Watch and tradition, which side?
If it is customary for a watch to be worn on the left wrist, it is first and foremost a logic of the greatest number. The first wristwatches needed to be reassembled, while the norm wanted the right-wing population: it was consequently easier to place it on the left wrist so that it could be wound up with the dominant hand.
No rules, then, but a habit that continues today! If it is no longer necessary to wind the watches, mechanical models excepted, some manual settings remain ... including time changes. The digital watches, they now frequently have touch screens. The population is still mainly right-handed, the logic remains and releases the right side to make adjustments more easily.
Especially since the dominant hand usually performs more gestures, and is, therefore, more prone to shocks. Your watch runs less risk - in theory - to your left wrist when grabbing your glass or hammer with your right hand.
Watch and practice, which side?
The tradition sometimes has good ... If you're left-handed, wear your watch on the right side, if you're right-handed, wear it to the left! This is the most common, and the easiest way to choose the right side. However, take into account the specificities of your way of life or your job, many of them forcing the dominant wrist, or even sometimes his neighbor, to rub against a surface.
This is the case of painters and designers, many manual trades, but also most trades involving the manipulation of a computer mouse! In the end, nothing can replace the test of the NORTH EDGE watch: wear it on a wrist for a whole day, then change your wrist the next day. You will see very quickly that if one side feels comfortable and natural, the other side is not.
Watch and aesthetics, which side?
Choosing which side to wear a NORTH EDGE watch requires, for a woman, an additional consideration: jewelry! If you are in the habit of stacking bracelets, it is still common to do it only on one side ... and often, for the same reasons, on the non-dominant side.
It is possible to mix on the same wrist a fine watch and light bracelets. On the other hand, it is more delicate to marry big bracelets to an imposing watch, a marriage that risks passing banging bracelets on the dial of the watch. Better to take into account your habits and adopt the wearing of the watch! Can you not resolve the conflict? Do not panic, solutions exist to have the time without a wristwatch. Keep your bracelets and choose a ring or necklace watch, voila.
