Does this mean I'm gay?
Confessions of a watch cross dresser...
So I lost my dive watch this summer - first dive of the season, of course, and I was seasick beyond all get out and was NOT thinking about things like my watch. Alas, I didn't realize until it was too late how much I loved that watch - silver on a medium blue plastic strap, it looked rather large on my scrawny wrist, but it was rated to 200 m, could count up and down, and had five alarms, with buttons I could press easily and numbers I could read underwater in difficult conditions. So now I'm back home, looking to replace it, and thought, maybe I'll get a new one that isn't quite so huge, and what do I find? All the 'women's' watches from the same maker are a) under a product line which incorporates the word "baby"; and b) they are all in pleasant (aka hideous) pastel colors - pink, lavender, blue and then the even stranger, white. Who the hell wears a white watch?? Ugh. You can take your Baby and shove it! Guess it's back to the men's watches, which have a higher depth rating, larger displays and come in normal colors like black.
All this reminds of the fact that my other watch (I call it my "dress" watch, though it is by no means dressy) is also a men's watch. I bought it at a watch shop in Florida when I was on vacation about 7 years ago, and I'd gone through all the women's watches, with their femmie shapes and tiny numbers and loathed every one of them. And then, lo and behold, in a small case on the other side of the store, amidst all the manly bulk, was a simple rectangular watch with brushed nickel surface and simple silver hands and rectangles at the 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock spots. And it came with a smooth, black leather band - no fake alligator patterns, no stitching, nothing. It was perfection. All I could want from a watch. I have loved it ever since. And when I had to replace the band a couple of years ago, I again found that watch band these days are a) cheapass and b) butt ugly. So I ended up with a wide, leather bracelet style band from Fossil that I must say hints at a love of bondage. But it was the best I could find.
So I can't help but realize now that I have been wearing men's watches for some time. Does that make me completely butch? I can't decide. I just know I hate dainty. I like simple, serviceable and dark. Cue quote from Airplane! - "I like my coffee black - like my men." Or maybe I should say women?? ;-)
So I lost my dive watch this summer - first dive of the season, of course, and I was seasick beyond all get out and was NOT thinking about things like my watch. Alas, I didn't realize until it was too late how much I loved that watch - silver on a medium blue plastic strap, it looked rather large on my scrawny wrist, but it was rated to 200 m, could count up and down, and had five alarms, with buttons I could press easily and numbers I could read underwater in difficult conditions. So now I'm back home, looking to replace it, and thought, maybe I'll get a new one that isn't quite so huge, and what do I find? All the 'women's' watches from the same maker are a) under a product line which incorporates the word "baby"; and b) they are all in pleasant (aka hideous) pastel colors - pink, lavender, blue and then the even stranger, white. Who the hell wears a white watch?? Ugh. You can take your Baby and shove it! Guess it's back to the men's watches, which have a higher depth rating, larger displays and come in normal colors like black.
All this reminds of the fact that my other watch (I call it my "dress" watch, though it is by no means dressy) is also a men's watch. I bought it at a watch shop in Florida when I was on vacation about 7 years ago, and I'd gone through all the women's watches, with their femmie shapes and tiny numbers and loathed every one of them. And then, lo and behold, in a small case on the other side of the store, amidst all the manly bulk, was a simple rectangular watch with brushed nickel surface and simple silver hands and rectangles at the 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock spots. And it came with a smooth, black leather band - no fake alligator patterns, no stitching, nothing. It was perfection. All I could want from a watch. I have loved it ever since. And when I had to replace the band a couple of years ago, I again found that watch band these days are a) cheapass and b) butt ugly. So I ended up with a wide, leather bracelet style band from Fossil that I must say hints at a love of bondage. But it was the best I could find.
So I can't help but realize now that I have been wearing men's watches for some time. Does that make me completely butch? I can't decide. I just know I hate dainty. I like simple, serviceable and dark. Cue quote from Airplane! - "I like my coffee black - like my men." Or maybe I should say women?? ;-)