While it was once considered a necessity, the role of the watch has been taken over by cell phones, smart devices, the clock in your car; you name it, anything but the watch. Watches should be thought of, certainly for men, as appropriate or an acceptable form of jewellery. Furthermore it tells people you have arrived (at a certain point in life) and that you’ve also acquired a...ahem certain taste. A watch not only completes your look but it can also be aspirational. A good looking or interesting timepiece can be the focal point in your dress and the accessory that can polish up your look. In business especially if I glance at a bare wrist, I think it sends subtle signals that one may not be as time conscious as one might expect. I still hold that it is rather unsophisticated for a man (or woman) to dig in to their jacket or handbag to pull out their mobile to tell the time.
And so speaking to the fellas, according to Mens Health Magazine - men used to wear pocket watches, round clunky things they stuck in their pockets and attached to their waistbands. A pocket watch was great for a guy, except when he was trying to discreetly measure the time between two job interviews or the time he had to finish up with madam X and move on to see mistress Y. Then came the invention of the wrist-watch, and now a man could juggle employers and women with just a casual flip of the wrist, instead of having to yank a big clunky device out of his pocket. Sadly, this ingenious tactic is under siege: These days, many of us tell time not by wristwatch but by our cell phones. Great devices, unless you're, well, trying to be discreet while digging one out of your pants. So we're back to square one. Be a man. Wear a watch
