Credits: Article and images by Tamim Almousa @ Quill & Pad. See the original article here - https://quillandpad.com/2024/01/05/sorry-guys-size-does-matter-youre-gonna-need-a-bigger-wrist-and-other-things-your-watch-retailer-wont-tell-you/
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I’m going to stick my neck out here: Neither Greubel nor Forsey wants to see their +47mm Double Tourbillon on your 14cm wrist. It’s like seeing a toddler in their mother’s heels. Cute when you’re a kid, unbecoming as an adult.
Speaking of which, a luxury watch is arguably the most “grown-up” of accessories, your first often signifying your transition from adolescence to adulthood. That and losing your virginity, which, ironically, is difficult to achieve if you don’t know how to dress yourself.
Nonetheless, you owe it to yourself and to those around you to dress like you have children, not like your children have dressed you.
I know what you’re thinking: who is this guy and why is he lecturing me on what to wear? Who does he think he is, the Ryan Gosling to my Steve Carell? No. I’m just a humble scribbler, thinking out loud and writing it down. So, don’t take it from me, take it from Mark Cho, the co-founder of The Armoury and co-owner of Drake’s.
Aside from being in the business of dressing people and a savvy watch collector in his own right, Cho conducted a survey on this very subject, the results of which I haven’t the space to explore here. To him, watch size is worthy of discussion. He brings it up a lot. “I love most [modern] Pateks,” he said in a WatchBox interview, “I just wish they were all 30-50% smaller.”
Size, more than anything, dictates whether he buys a watch or not. If it doesn’t fit him, he doesn’t want anything to do with it. If it’s too big, no myriad of complications, degree of finish, design features, brand name, historical significance, rarity or scarcity will part the velvet rope that guards his collection.
Some might say he’s limiting himself. I say the limitations are real. But it’s what he said, during the aforementioned interview, that hit home for me: “Not everything in the world is for you.”
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Credits: Article and images by Tamim Almousa @ Quill & Pad. See the original article here - https://quillandpad.com/2024/01/05/sorry-guys-size-does-matter-youre-gonna-need-a-bigger-wrist-and-other-things-your-watch-retailer-wont-tell-you/