https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/fashion/watches-women-gender.html

 

Nobody with wrists small enough to sport bargain priced 33mm vintage wristwatches will get any sympathy from me.

 

They’re not bargain priced at all — be it only because many men like them too.


PS - are you saying the exact same thing that guy was saying in the article,
Ie that men cannot buy a watch that would also be suitable for a woman?

Funny as this is the tagline:

« “It’s cool for girls to appropriate boys’ stuff, but not the other way around,” ....
“He said, ‘Women can have the best of both worlds: They can wear a super feminine gem-set watch, and they can also wear a Royal Oak that’s super masculine, but men have to stick to men’s,’” Ms. Wong said.

“And I said, ‘Let me stop you right there — your credit card is not going to be blocked if you try to buy a woman’s watch,’” she said. “He just wanted me to admit women have it better. He wasn’t changing his mind.”

 

I can happily appropriate ‘women’s’ stuff, no problem. Look at who’s getting wrist time today.
My covetousness is only in regard to wrist size.

 

Why is it « woman’s stuff »?

 

I ask myself that every time I wear a dress.

 

Pom-poms on the shoes too?


Stanislav Amelchyts

 

I like the definition: "A woman's watch is a watch a woman wears."

My wrists are pretty small for a man, and very few modern "men's" watches appeal to me. For me 34-36mm feels about right for most watches. I'll take up to 40mm for dive watch. An exception is made for the Speedmaster.

I suppose from a money making point of view it is easy to put people in boxes and market to subdivisions of your own creation. That and making people feel inadequate is a time honored tradition in marketing, e.g. "you're not sexy enough but you will be if you buy this watch" or "you're not manly enough unless you buy this expensive giant watch."

 

When I picked up this Benrus, very good mechanical condition runs great,
I chose to give it to my sister. Not because of the size, I have two others the same size which I wear now and then, but because the rhinestone and ruby markers were just too much bling for a mans watch.