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M'Bob
·Here's your chance to pontificate on non-Speedmaster content...
I was reading a post recently from a guy who no longer wears his Rolex Datejust, because at 36mm, it gets lost on his wrist.
30 years ago, I specifically recall a gent with the same model Rolex, and not a small guy either, who said that the Rolex was way too chunky to wear.
As you know, most of the major companies have bumped the diameter of most of their lines up.
So what happened in the intervening years? Men's dress watches were comfortably 32 to 33mm, and no one complained they were too small. Here are the three reasons I can come up with...would be curious what you think.
1) Culture has become more casual over the years, so sport watches became more popular, and were always larger, so "dressier" watches look less formal in a larger size, and grew to be less disparate than their brethren.
2) In general, tastes are less understated than they used to be. Bigger is better, extreme sports, etc. So the bigger watches make more of a statement than smaller ones do. Any surprise that female butts have reflected a similar aesthetic?
3) People are living longer than they used to, eyes are aging, larger dials are just simply easier to see.
What say you, sages?
I was reading a post recently from a guy who no longer wears his Rolex Datejust, because at 36mm, it gets lost on his wrist.
30 years ago, I specifically recall a gent with the same model Rolex, and not a small guy either, who said that the Rolex was way too chunky to wear.
As you know, most of the major companies have bumped the diameter of most of their lines up.
So what happened in the intervening years? Men's dress watches were comfortably 32 to 33mm, and no one complained they were too small. Here are the three reasons I can come up with...would be curious what you think.
1) Culture has become more casual over the years, so sport watches became more popular, and were always larger, so "dressier" watches look less formal in a larger size, and grew to be less disparate than their brethren.
2) In general, tastes are less understated than they used to be. Bigger is better, extreme sports, etc. So the bigger watches make more of a statement than smaller ones do. Any surprise that female butts have reflected a similar aesthetic?
3) People are living longer than they used to, eyes are aging, larger dials are just simply easier to see.
What say you, sages?
