Changing watches with the weather

At the risk of TMI, it rather depends on the climate and sweat factor. In temperate Europe I can wear a watch with a leather strap all year round. Whereas in Texas it's bracelet or rubber for half the year, unless you're one of those folks who never leaves their air conditioned home, car and office - they do exist.

Re: scratches, I try not to notice them. They're inevitable and it drives me crazy if I pay attention to them.

I live in San Antonio, and I 100% agree. But for me I wear a bracelet more like 8 months out of the year and the other 4 I can get away with leather of sailcloth.

Only a few, very advanced forum users will ever confess to only owning one watch...

I try to collect the widest variety of designs possible so I can match something to any outfit. But I would say I'm more concerned about matching colours and levels of formal dress rather than seasonality (anyway, I live in deep inland Canada so for 6 months of the year my wrist is simply not exposed).

I tend to wear blue or silver dial watches more in the summer and my darker watches in the winter.

Got short sleeves even in winter (inside). So I don’t care tbh.

It's moving to winter over here and school uniform (yes, we have those) dictates a long-sleeve shirt, thus my dressier pieces have been having a lot more wear lately because of thinness.

The seasons change my watch-wearing habits. Short sleeves means less double-wristing with my Apple Watch. Rainy spring weather means less of my low WR watches and more of the divers. Hot weather means more rubber straps and less fabric (NATO) straps. My bracelets don't have on the fly adjustment, so I'll skip them when the wrist swells or shrinks.

I live where you get all four seasons - hot and humid summers and cold dark winters - so I tend to wear watches seasonally. In general, I wear smaller, slimmer, lighter watches in the depths of winter. When its real cold out, I'd rather not tuck a large or thick watch under tight sleeves, jacket cuffs, or gloves. Come summer, I tend to wear my larger and thicker watches. Spring and fall? Whatever I feel like, though it's usually dictated by whatever shirt or jacket I'm wearing on a given day.

At the end of the day, I want whatever watch I'm wearing to be comfortable and I have no problem not wearing a watch for a few months if it's not comfortable for how I'm dressing.

My main concern is with my vintage watches and getting wet - so I tend to wear something more waterproof in case of the British rain. The other thing is less wearing leather straps in the summer!

Just put a Milanese mesh bracelet on for the summer. Doesn’t show scratches and is more breathable than the bracelet. It got hot quick here in wine country too. We escaped to the Mendocino coast last weekend to stay cool.

Maybe mesh should be my next purchase, could be a good compromise.

If you do buy one get quality. I had a cheap Seiko one that completely turned me off to mesh for a while. It wasn’t until I tried on a Bond Seamaster that I realized it wasn’t that I didn’t like mesh it was that the Seiko one was just meh. I ended up with the omega stainless steel and it’s so comfortable.

I will change straps some times. When it gets warm, my wrist swells and I need my adjustable straps over my metal bracelet.

The nice part of years of diving watches is they are all weather. Now I have a non waterproof favorite, I change my watch for rain......

My sympathies, I'd never have stood school uniforms.........

Scratches from desk diving are mostly on the bracelet?

There's so much straps options, yet now with quick release... Personally if I like the watch I would just change the strap and keep it going 👍🏻