Wearing Watch under dress shirt (with or without suit jacket)
My cuff completely covers my watch. If I want to look at the time, I raise my left arm up, which reveals like half of the watch, then I use my right hand to push back my shirt sleeve to see the time.
Is this correct?
Also, when I drop my arm after looking at the watch, my shirt cuff and suit jacket are parallel, so I have to pull out the shirt sleeve a bit so that it's symmetrical with my other arm -- is that normal?
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Yep.
The alternatives are:
1. Don't wear a watch
2. Wear a very thin dress watch rather than a larger watch or a "tool watch", which will make it much easier for the watch to be visible at the end of your wrist and will make it less likely first shirt + jacket to get caught on it
3. Buy, or have commissioned, shirts and jackets with a wider left cuff than right cuff (or vice versa depending on which arm you wear a watch on)
how common is the mismatched cuffs option?
Pretty standard if you get stuff made custom. You could never tell without measuring the cuffs that one is slightly larger than the other to accommodate a watch
Off the rack, not sure but I suspect not at all standard
cool, interesting
It’s super easy to move the button tho to make that alteration on shirts you already have
It’s also why some dress shirts intentionally have each cuff with two button holes: your wristwatch sleeve is set looser so your watch can easily slip out, while your non-wristwatch sleeve is set tighter so it sits closer to your wrist when extending out your arms.
Some shirts also have the buttonhole placed higher up the wrist / closer to the sleeve placket instead of being in the middle so that there’s more play for the fabric when you flick up the cuff to reveal your watch.