RIGHT WRIST OR LEFT WRIST?

The vast majority wear their watch on their left wrist, this is a fact. The explanations are diverse but not conclusive. Tell me, which wrist do you wear your watch on? Do you take it there for any special reason?
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Right wrist, especially when writing because I'm a lefty. Left wrist when I'm relaxing or to air my wrist. 😎

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Left wrist, just used to this over the years. Right is for doing things, left is for looking at the time.

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I started right-wristing when my left hand started hurting even with the watch off, about fifteen years ago. I used to wear my watch tight, I've been wearing it in the first loose fit ever since. There are exceptional occasions when I left-wrist or double-wrist, but most of the time my left wrist is bare.

I'm also a lefty and it's a bit more practical to wear a watch on "the correct" hand. Plus, no trouble with big crowns digging in.

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As a kid I experimented by wearing my watch on alternate wrists on alternate days I just found that wearing a watch on the left wrist is much more comfortable and hence i wear my watches on left wrist!

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TalkingDugong

Right wrist, especially when writing because I'm a lefty. Left wrist when I'm relaxing or to air my wrist. 😎

Careful when wrong-wristing, so you don't lose your tan line. 😃

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CheapHangover

Careful when wrong-wristing, so you don't lose your tan line. 😃

I don't care overmuch about wrist tans, so my tan is small and not very pronounced.

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I'm not a cat but I identify as one but I'm more like a dog I wear on my left wrist used to wear on my right but got told its not right on the right so go left right.

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A watch goes on your left wrist. Anything else is perverse and disturbing for me so please stop.

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Either, sometimes both at once.

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Right wrist - I’m predominantly a lefty.

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As a kid, I was always taught that watches belong on your off-hand, so it's just something that is now long engrained into my psyche, haha. I've tried switching it up and wearing a watch on my right wrist but it almost feels uncomfortable, in a way. As if my parents are looking at me, wide-eyed, and screaming to put it back on my left wrist.

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The majority of people are right handed and a watch on the left will see less damage as you go through your day.

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Right, because I’m left-handed, and don’t want to spill my drink on myself when I check the time

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I thought Halo 2 and the movie Equilibrium taught us all that nothing beats dual wielding!

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RenaissanceTinker
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I’m a cat. Rules don’t apply to me. Sometimes left sometimes right. Depends on my activities at any given moment. Sometimes I switch wrists multiple times in a day. 😱

I'm sure that without a watch he knows perfectly well when it's time to eat.

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I wear mine on my left wrist. Really, I should use my right as I’m left handed so my watches tend to get bashed about a bit. It just feels weird having a watch on my right wrist.

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I wear my watch on my non dominant hand so left. I switched it for about two weeks last fall because of a sprained wrist. But yeah left just feels better and Im used to it

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I'm a dog so I wear it on both.

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I grew up playing baseball so when after three times taking a fastball off my watch, I switched wrists. So for years I wore it on my right even though I'm a righty. Recently I started working in an office environment and wanted to wear it the "Right" way and put it on my left (off wrist) . I do switch back and forth depending on what type of watch and where the crowns are. My Nighthawk wears better on the right because I can access the slide rule crown , the Navihawk too. Other watches work just fine on the left.

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Left for my watch, right for the apple thingy

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Am a lefty, keyboard warrior. Wear the watch on my right since it feels right, and mousing with a watch on seems like a good way to ding up both the watch and my desk.

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Oh good, it’s been a few days since the last left vs. right wrist poll. We were in desperate need of another.

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Left wrist most of the time. At home I often wear two watches - and learn about similarities, subtle differences etc. that way.

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I am using both wrists, simply because my right wrist is bit larger than left, so it lets some watches with a tiny larger strap sit better.

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I write left-handed so wear my watches on the right wrist. So used to it now that it feels awkward on the left wrist, so I stick to the right.

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Watches were originally supposed to be worn on your less dominate arm because the school of thought was you didn’t want too much shock affecting the time keeping of the movement. Since most people are right handed, watch makers designed watches to be worn on the left.

I’m right handed so I fall into the majority of watch wearers who wear on the left wrist.

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I wear mine on my left, my wife wears hers on her right.

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I have heard of a watch dog but not watch cat. 😂

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Most of the time on my left but depending what I’m doing I will occasionally wear it on the right hand.