Watch + Tuxedo …. Recommendations?

Wear anything you like....

But if you do want to be a stickler: black strap worn above the wrist bone so 1cm or so shows below the (French) cuff when your arm is bent, white or yellow metal (if you wear a wedding/signet/class ring and/or cufflinks it should match the metal colour), white dial, two or three hander with no other complications, and no bigger than 38mm unless you're a gorilla.

Along with a soft fold-down collar (butterfly collars should be reserved for white tie) on a lightly starched waffle-fronted (studs optional nowadays) shirt (no ruffles), black single or double-breasted jacket with silk-facing on the lapels and no back vents, high-waisted trousers with a single slug trail on the side seams, no separate belt (braces are traditional), black waistcoat that buttons no higher than the sternum or a cummerbund (you can get away with a family tartan if the wedding is in Scotland and you're not wearing a kilt or trous), and black patent-leather lace-up shoes.

It has to be said that most of these rules are abitrary -- made up by snobs so they could laugh up their immaculately tailored sleeves at people they regarded as less 'smart' than them. The point is not so much to abide by them as know when you're ignoring them.

This is my go to on the rare occasions I go to a black-tie do nowadays.

While the traditional rule of etiquette was no watch with formal wear, traditionally white tie/tails is formal while a tuxedo is considered semi-formal/dinnerwear.

So, even traditional etiquette would rule that a watch with a tuxedo isn’t necessarily taboo.

Alan Flusser’s famous guide to men’s dress: Dressing The Man: Mastering The Art Of Permanent Fashion has one central suggestion for a watch with any formal wear:

“If you choose to wear a wristwatch, remember that the thinner the watch, the more tasteful it is. Black bands are recommended.”

Makes sense aesthetically but also functionally: if a tuxedo shirt fits you properly at the wrist, a watch will either not fit comfortably under the cuff or the cuff will become bunched up above the watch.

Still, on my wedding day I wore SS connie on BoR

This one, black & white WG, cabochon crown

I would bust out some old gold. I like a navy strap though. Smart but just a twist on the traditional black.

I think that was their "Thing" back in the 50s. My question is were they ever an everyday watch? Did people actually have these watches as their everyday wearers? I see a lot of old presentation watches ( I actually owned an old Smiths one) often in gold and I wonder if they got much wear or were stashed away and used only for occasions.

Speedy on a bracelet of course! 😉

Beautiful. I aspire to own an Ultrachron and stainless steel would be my first choice. I came upon my only Longines in a serendipitous way so it will stay with me now.

I found a Military G10 Pulsar was best with a Tuxedo today 😀
This is the only fur lined Tux I wear on a regular basis nowadays.
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