Community Stories

Do you wear your watch while sleeping?

Mad Dog
Posts
6,489
Likes
76,727
When I received my 1861 Moonwatch [and its presentation box set] new in 2015, I wore the 1861 to bed for a few weeks on the presentation box black polyamide NATO. It is my first Speedy and I was pretty stoked at the time…I even had the humongous presentation box and all of its paraphernalia sitting on the nightstand with the lid open just inches from my slumbering face…just so I could smell that new presentation box smell…which is so awesome. Anyway, after a few weeks it became apparent that wearing the 1861 to bed was somewhat uncomfortable on the wrist…so I stopped doing it.
 
Modernism
Posts
332
Likes
163
Never have. Don't understand why you would. Especially the thickness of some of the divers these days. I remember reading a similar post about this subject years ago on one or other OMEGA forum, and some bloke said he clobbered his wife in the face in their sleep with his watch. He stopped after that.
 
wagudc
Posts
4,544
Likes
11,574
Spruce Spruce
Apart from not having a cable box or anything else electric on in the bedroom, you had to get up to check on babies and kids, puppies or dogs startled by fireworks (we get a lot in London). So it’s good to know if a feed is due, how long you’ve been sitting/settling the child or pet and, whether it’s worth going back to bed or if you might as well just get up.

It may be a generational thing - there weren’t cable boxes or cell phones (or anything electronically digital) when I got into the habit.

I have a clock on the nightstand for such things. My watches sleep on pillows in their own case.
 
S
Posts
62
Likes
348
I was wearing 24/7 my watches till my first automatic (Orient, some 15 years ago) got completely dinged one night at the metal frame of the bed I was sleeping. The I stop, even no more beds like this at home.
But my wife does, she is always with a watch on the wrist. Recently she is wearing a Seastar1000 which has incredible lume - sometimes I wake up in the night and it just glows in front of my face like the dog from the early "Baskervilles dog" movie - scary...
 
jindodog
Posts
17
Likes
75
I do and have for decades for many dive watches. In the last year most often a ploprof which makes some noise under the pillow but I got use to it.
 
Spruce
Posts
7,239
Likes
57,604
jindodog jindodog
I do and have for decades for many dive watches. In the last year most often a ploprof which makes some noise under the pillow but I got use to it.

TBH, I actually stopped wearing a hummer in bed because of the noise factor 🙁
 
EuroDriver
Posts
590
Likes
2,525
Just to add to the anecdotes:

A few months ago while my wife was out of town, I came home from a night out with the boys and I happened to be wearing my 43.5mm PO. I plopped on the couch and passed out on the spot. Sometime in the wee hours, one of my dogs decided he needed to wash my face and when I groggily tried to push him away, I smacked myself right above my eyebrow with the coin edge of the bezel - it was not pleasant at all.

Moral of the story: If you own a PO (or similarly weighty watch), sleeping with it is definitely a no-no.
 
Dsloan
Posts
3,109
Likes
20,343
I'm honestly surprised at how many people don't wear a watch to bed.

Me getting ready for bed:
PXL_20240204_015621363.jpg
 
Canuck
Posts
14,093
Likes
40,524
No. But if only I was able to find pyjamas with a watch pocket, that might change.😁
 
STANDY
Posts
16,666
Likes
47,138
Canuck Canuck
No. But if only I was able to find pyjamas with a watch pocket, that might change.😁

There is always the prison pocket 😗
 
Sign up or log in to reply...

Similar threads

S

How & where do you wear your watch?

Sluggo Open Discussion
Pvt-Public
Pvt-Public
Posts
39
Views
6K
watchthinker

What Strap makes your wear your Speedmaster more?

watchthinker Open Discussion
Taddyangle
Taddyangle
Posts
21
Views
3K
140dave

Do you wear vintage on vintage bracelets? Fear VBF?

140dave Vintage Omega Watches Help, Discussion and Advice
JohnSteed
JohnSteed
Posts
34
Views
4K
levelcrou

How do you authenticate your watch?

levelcrou Modern Omega Watches
levelcrou
levelcrou
Posts
7
Views
4K
Duracuir1

Do You Wear a Watch to Pick Up a Watch from the Watchmaker?

Duracuir1 Open Discussion
pdxleaf
pdxleaf
Posts
19
Views
3K
Zman4eva

GQ article - Why True Watch Heads Never Set the Time on Their Watches

Zman4eva Open Discussion
Aurelius
Aurelius
Posts
104
Views
8K