Double wristing: mechanical watch and apple watch at the same time

[stanza.richi]

Good morning everybody! As written before, since Easter 2021 a renewed huge interest in mechanical watches led me away from my AW series 4, after 4 years of only AW. After one year of only mechanical watch on my left wrist with the exception during physical activities, I’m asking myself if I could be a “double wristing“ guy, as Jack Forster affirmed on this hodinkee post https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/double-wristing-a-guide-for-the-perplexed

I prefer my mechanical watches because I find them more aesthetically pleasing (no way that AW could beat on nice looking my Sub, in my opinion), I could admire for hours the second hand move smoothly. At the same time I find comfortable to have notification on my wrist, have the opportunity of closing my rings, monitor my parameters with my AW and use apple pay with it.

So I’m considering doing it with regular basis. Some of you is doing the same? If yes, what band and what watch face are you using on AW during double wristing?

Thank in advance for everyone that will join the conversation

 

[Jackbequickly]

I do not wear my last mechanical watch anymore. Just too dangerous in todays world.

It is Apple, all the way.

 

[stanza.richi]

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I do not wear my last mechanical watch anymore. Just too dangerous in todays world.

It is Apple, all the way.

A shiny piece of gold with a shiny nacre dial: not exactly something that could go unnoticed 😂 but really beautiful!!!

Thank to everyone that cast his/her vote but, please, explain your vote and feed the discussion ☺️

 

[Howard2k]

A shiny piece pf gold with a shiny nacre dial: not exactly something that could go unnoticed 😂 but really beautiful!!!

Thank to everyone that cast his/her vote but, please, explain your vote and feed the discussion ☺️

I think it looks silly and it is silly. But each to their own. People can do that they want. If someone wants to wear two watches go nuts, but personally I think it's absurd. Only expressing my opinion because you asked

 

[svenmany]

It looks silly, but isn't silly. I think people do notice it and, like @Howard2k, view it with disdain. Thinking that other people consider me absurd is enough to dissuade me from double writing in public.

I wear two watches in the house. I wear one watch when I leave it. I usually wear the Apple Watch outside because it helps with messages, unlocking my phone, etc.

My mechanical is a Rolex and my Apple watch face is "Activity Digital". I never bother picking a watch face that's attractive since when I want to be pleased by how something looks, I look at my Rolex.

 

[Howard2k]

It looks silly, but isn't silly. I think people do notice it and, like @Howard2k, view it with disdain. Thinking that other people consider me absurd is enough to dissuade me from double writing in public.

I wear two watches in the house. I wear one watch when I leave it. I usually wear the Apple Watch outside because it helps with messages, unlocking my phone, etc.

My mechanical is a Rolex and my Apple watch face is "Activity Digital". I never bother picking a watch face that's attractive since when I want to be pleased by how something looks, I look at my Rolex.

...And again, I choose not to, but people can do what they want. I don't dress myself by committee. I'm not wearing watches by committee either. Each to their own. I'm not trying to bash anyone.

 

[svenmany]

I remember reading an article about this topic. I forget where, but it was definitely in Apple News. They were advocating double wristing. One of the main things they tried to address was the concern about what other people think. They asserted that no one cares or even has an opinion. I remember disagreeing at the time. I suspect people do look twice and think it looks silly. It's up to each of us whether we care. I don't dress to impress, but I do change my shirt once the food stains get bad enough.

Wearing my mechanical watch gives me such pleasure. I look at it even if I don't want to know the time. If the watch is running slightly fast, I place it at night crown down. If slow, I place it flat. I love that kind of engagement. It's not an ego or status thing for me since I don't wear it much out of the house. But since I work from home, I'm almost always wearing it.

And then there's my Apple Watch - ding, unlock, take this turn, read this message, close my rings, etc. I guess it will be recycled after a number of years. It's kind of hard to care as much about a disposable piece of tech, but I do need the ding. So I'm a double wrister.

 

[Canaria]

I used to wear an Apple Watch almost 24/7. Until last year when I got my Breitling. After a while I started to miss the health and fitness stats and tried a Fitbit on my right wrist. But wearing a Fitbit doesn't close any move/stand/exercise ring. Even worse, it doesn't support Apple Health sync at all.
That's why I'm wearing my Apple Watch 4 again.

 

[stanza.richi]

After a while I started to miss the health and fitness stats

That’s one of the reason why I’m considering double wristing. Another one is like this morning: I woke up and walked out the dog and went to take breakfast for all the family with AW on right wrist and Submariner on the left, letting my iPhone in charge on the night-stand. Used Apple pay to pay the breakfast and back home.

 

[utzelu]

I haven’t worn an AW and mechanical, but I do wear a Xiaomi MI6 band on my right wrist and traditional watches on my left. Like you, I need the notifications, activity tracking and heart rate monitoring, but I also love mechanical and quartz watches (have quite few). I had AWs before but couldn’t make myself double wristing, after my wide said it looks “puerile”. So for the time being the smart band, with its discrete appearance, seems to go unnoticed and the metrics are good enough.

 

[Hustler]

I love my mechanical watches. The Apple Watch has greatly reduced the wrist time they get, and that’s a bummer for sure. My wife got me a Breitling for a wedding gift and I tried double wristing. It felt silly, looked silly to me and then my wife called me out too and that kind of sealed the deal. I do like to wear it for an entire day at a time every month or so but really miss the notifications from the Apple Watch. I work on cars so can’t wear that thing there, more of a weekend indulgence.
She recently got me an AWU for our 10 yr so double wristing with that big ol’ thing would feel even more ridiculous as it doesn’t quite blend in as much as a normal, smaller, black watch would.
I’d be lying though if just last week I didn’t consider double wristing it maybe after work lol.

Brad

 

[utzelu]

It also depends if you wear long or short sleeves - with long sleeves the AW is hidden most of the time, but I live in a warm climate and wear short sleeves most of the year.

 

[DaveOZ]

I did it for a while using a stealth black Ti 41mm AW on my right wrist and automatic watch on my left. Since I bought the AW Ultra I just can’t do it. Like you, I miss the character of my ‘real’ watches. I don’t know the answer to the dilemma.

 

[addamas]

I did it ages ago with normal watch and miband if it counts… as someone with short hair it looked weird as miband looked like hair gum (the one to clip the hair into pony tail etc).
So I can imagine how it look with two watches.
If you like it - follow it but you have to be confident

 

[stanza.richi]

My mechanical is a Rolex and my Apple watch face is "Activity Digital". I never bother picking a watch face that's attractive since when I want to be pleased by how something looks, I look at my Rolex.

Show us the Rolex and the watch face please 😊

 

[utzelu]

The way I see it, smart watches is a transitional phase to body sensors, which will be much more accurate and will communicate with smartphones or other medical devices. So I am a bit reticent to invest myself into smart watches knowing that they will become obsolete as a product category in maybe a decade.

 

[xDKP]

I really did think about it as my Omega and Rolex are collecting dust at the moment. But with the recent change to the AWU it would seem even more silly than before so luckily the AWU gives me a bit of a “real-watch-vibe” with the chunky case so miss them a bit less at the moment 😁

 

[svenmany]

Show us the Rolex and the watch face please 😊

Nothing too fancy...

It's replacement of a watch I lost in 2000. The watch I lost differed from this one in that it had a silver face and a machined bezel. My wife (of 38 years) treated me to that in 1982. It was $1,200; quite a stretch for a graduate student with a newly employed spouse. I bought this one last year. Since I bought it new, it didn't cost $1,200.

 

[Fried_Gold]

I have a blue Tudor BB58 that I sometimes double wrist but I really hate wearing anything on my right wrist. I usually just end up going through phases of AW then my Tudor.

If I am going out with friends or to dinner etc then I do wear my Tudor over the AW.

 

[Spudlicious]

I like watches and own about a dozen. Apple Watch is a wrist-worn device that happens to show the time, as do my iPhone and iMac. But just as my iPhone is not a pocket watch and my iMac is not a clock, so I cannot regard Apple Watch as a horological device because it is not dedicated to that purpose. Also, I've loathed it since the day I bought it. A real watch is something special, something personal, a small object of desire a person can become attached to. Sentimental value of an Apple Watch? Zero.

Now the thread topic. Yes, I do often double wrist, always with a real watch on the left, where one naturally looks for the time.

 

[OCS12]

I used to be really into mechanical watches and still love my Omega, but I’d feel pretty silly wearing two at once. To me, a well designed mechanical watch is basically jewelry for guys. My AWU is for utility. They each have their purpose, but both at the same time seems silly to me. That’s just my opinion and not meant to be judgy in any way.

 

[Kottu]

Only person I have ever seen with two watches is a luxury watch merchandiser. He had two Rolexes!

 

[Trent0341]

I just can't double wrist. No judgement either though. I have a couple nice mechanical watches. Typically they only get worn if I'm going out to dinner or an event and have already closed my rings. My streaks too long to break now.

 

[chipsandsalsa]

Sure do, and I am T H R I V I N G.

 

[paul.p]

Try that..