I never match my watches with what I wear

Yup, I look at watches exactly the same way as you do TimexBadger! Fashion gurus on the internet are complete strangers whose opinions may be interesting but really don’t matter in your every day life. Your 17 years of wearing the same watch would have indisputably demonstrated that absolutely no one ever notices what watch you are wearing. In fact someone once did an experiment where they wore the same outfit every day for 1 year, and you guessed it, no one noticed. Therefore wear whatever watch makes you smile, no matter how much it may “clash” with your outfit. Wear without care (unless you enjoy matching your watch with your outfit, then go for it, but remember, no one will notice).

Precisely zero people notice what watch I'm wearing, so the only point of matching it in any way with my outfit is for my own benefit. I am more likely to match my watch with what I'm doing in the day. If I tell my Cartier we're going to the gym it looks at me like...

In my case I match what I wear with my watch and I wear a watch depending on what I'm going to do. Except when using the Explorer for an extended period of time. In that case I care not about anything as this watch serves for almost anything. But true, nobody notices the watches unless a watch nerd. I mostly do match what I wear with the watch I chose out of pure personal fun.

Watches are the kind of thing that can totally clash with what you're wearing and still look good, so it's never bothered me. That said, the vast majority of watches are pretty plain, all told, and tend to go with most things. A diver with a black dial, on a bracelet, for example... tell me something it doesn't go with? I find people have to go out of their way, to some degree, to get the matchy-matchy going on. "Oh look, I'm wearing an orange tie and the seconds hand on my watch is orange... how amazing!" LOL.

Never bothered to be honest, I'm mainly at work so I guess I wouldn't wear a dress watch, but only for the fact it would stand to get broken or badly scratched.

As for matching with my out fit, not much goes with my orange uniform 😀

Lots and lots of orange, including my work coffee cup 😆 🟠

Am wearing dressy Seiko with jacket and jeans. What an abomination....

It's not so much that I match my watches, I'm just not trying to wear something that clashes with the rest of my outfit. It is possible to make people notice your watch, it just needs to be big, bright or colorful enough.

Due to nearly everyone having a phone that tells time, a watch is nothing more than a fashion accessory.  If you don't care how your watch looks with your clothes, do you care how your appearance looks at all?  I like when I look good from head to toe and I like when people notice, especially hot females.

I usually start my outfit with my watch and work around that! I do try to match things at times, but it isn't always my goal. Black sports watch usually goes with everything, so that's my daily pick.

im gonna agree with @marioap and @martini on this one. im not really care about what people think but it is nice to match watch and our outfit, not to impress anyone but for our own personal fun. my rules usually to match the strap with belt and shoes colour, but usually for gada or diverwatch with bracelet usually goes with anything

I have enough basic color watches to match what I’m wearing. I don’t do this for others (Have you noticed how people throw on anything? Some wear pajamas and flip-flops to the supermarket!) I do it because that’s the way I am. Seems natural to me.

I’ve noticed jeans at weddings, shorts in church, even overdone bling on construction sites. Over the years, very few people have commented on my watches—just other watch guys.

It’s Sunday morning, my wife and I are sitting in the living room, drinking coffee and checking our websites, reading our newspapers, and enjoying retirement. But I’m still matching gray jeans with a silver bracelet.

As I said, it’s just the way I am.

I am also going against your opinion, as I got into watches from a fashion perspective. I like matching my watches to my outfits, not for others' benefits but mine. I also believe that details matter and first impressions do matter, not that it should be the deciding factor when getting knowing a person. As tiny as a watch is, I believe it can trigger the right responses.

That being said, you can make most watches work with most outfits. I think it's just a conscious choice vs. c'est la vie. One of my favourite style youtubers, Brian Sacawa of hespokestyle, featured his watches in many of his videos and also did some watch-centric style videos as well ( https://youtu.be/SMiDRuq0PWI ). In the aforementioned video he wears his Sub in a suit to a more casual look, but in a mindful manner.

I also believe while it's probably more difficult to wear an orange Doxa with a suit, but it can be done with the right type of suit and personality!

Most of what I own are dress watches.  I wear a lot of suits.  The suit determines the shoes. The shoes determine the belt and watch band because they must match. (You would think that juries would not notice such things.  They do.  Mismatched shoes and belt are not endearing to them. They show a lack of professionalism and focus. I have polled juries and can tell you that they are very critical of lawyer's sartorial choices, especially female lawyers).

I have been known to match a watch to a tie.

There is also a reason for each tie color and pattern when I am in trial.  Trial requires a different watch each day.  I don't repeat suits, watches or ties. Does any of it matter? If it matters to 1 out of 12, it matters.

Weekends are for sports watches and scuffed up vintage.

Very cool perspectives and really enjoyed reading them all.  Thanks for playing along.  I'm 58 now and work exclusively at home.  Having said that my first career in my 20s was a hair dresser in New York City. I'm not talking about Supercuts (although nothing wrong with them), i'm talking about the places in the late 80s that were getting $200 to $400 a haircut (I worked for Vidal Sasson's).  I stayed in the field for five years, but became so turned off from the attitudes of the ultra rich clientele.  In those days for my job I had to look very trendy and I think I became anti-fashion after that.  lol.  Just thought I'd throw that out there so you can see a bit of history behind my perspective.

I agree with @Aurelian  I used to wear suits at work all the time and Usually match my tie and watch. Now I don’t wear suits anymore I just try to match my socks with my watch often times. 

Hey Catfancy.  FYI your post was what inspired this one.

aw thanks mate 💪

In business its all about selling which includes the image you give to people you meet. They subconsciously size you up in a heartbeat for a first impression. Its predation on a gentlemanly scale. Watch brand flexing comes into that. Rolex beats Seiko, Seiko beats Casio in the hierarchy. Interpreting body language to form a response. Matching watch strap color to cloths is one. (got 11 Nato straps on order)

Unless you become financially independent and wear a Timex.  lol.  My idol John Bolge wore one for 20 years as Chairman of The Vanguard Group.  Also, once you are at the top of the food chain or obtain the position of F U (like Jim Collins talks about video below).  There is no need to impress people you probably won't even like.  One of the reasons why I never joined a country club.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eikbQPldhPY

When you wear nothing but jeans and novelty t-shirts, any watch will do.

When you get to a point where you don't need to care what other people think and have the self confidence to perform at your job well enough to not need confirmation then that is success on a personal level. Down dressing in business is also useful to let them think they are better than you so you can lead them into thinking your idea is theirs. Body language is more important than the spoken language to the innate animal in all of us.

Surely it’s common sense. If I’m wearing a suit I don’t do G-Shock or digital, and if I’m casual it’s kind of fair game. It’s an accessory, like a bracelet or a ring, so it doesn’t need to complicated, nor does it need ridiculous rules to follow. This is a recent trend, so perhaps that’s why it needs to stop now before it gets out of control. Oh, it’s Wednesday and a waxing gibbous moon, so you can’t wear brown Italian leather and with Saggitarius rising you can only really wear a Chronograph if your aftershave has sage in it? F*** me.

I wear what I want wherever I am or what I'm doing because its my watch and my wrist. I'm satisfying my own whims, not the whims of social protocol that cares not whether I live or die.

For me it is, activity/occasion >> watch >> shoes and belt >> outfit!

As someone said earlier, "it really doesn't matter".  I can honestly say, in forty eight years of wearing a watch, about three years ago someone did finally say"nice watch!" So yeah, it really doesn't matter because nobody notices your watch. 😭😀

I choose a watch without regard to what I’m wearing.  I tend to dress like a hobo so I’m not certain my fashion sense means anything to anybody. 

My biggest determining factor in watch choice for the day, is the uniform I'll be wearing to work. If I'm in my "work" uniform I'll wear pretty much anything. If I'm in my "office" uniform I try to match my watch to the uniform colours more. I say try, because I don't do back watch straps... I don't really wear black outside of work, so  at best I have dark brown watch straps, or my various "bond" straps. 

100% agree... I do however have some watches that I wear (or don´t) depending on the ocassion. For example, I don´t wear leather strap if Im cooking, or if Im going to sweat... 

More often than not, I look at my watches as a style accessory. I truly have no idea of what fashion trends are. I only know what I like to wear and with what - btw that’s not to say I’m always right - I look back sometimes and say ‘what was I thinking?!’. It’s all part of self development. Style is an individual thing and fashion is a communal thing.

At weekends and holidays I tend to wear watches more for their purpose but again style also plays a major part too.

There’s obviously a flex community on social media but I also think that there’s a community/culture on there that says: it’s ok to like these watches and here’s my collection to share with the world. Maybe one day that flex community will become a tired internet trope and all that remains are the watch lovers. Until that day, I can only suggest we all ignore them, don’t let them bother us (they don’t cause us any physical/mental harm after all - except maybe drive up prices and reduce availability) and continue to find interesting things to look at. Or remove ourselves from certain social media platforms.

Matching is for girls. But sometimes I'll swap a strap or band to color coordinate, but I'm a twit that considers socks and belts and all the same way.  I really don't go for impractical colored dials so this is largely a non-issue for me.