Best Office Watch Spots

Mine! I’m the only one in my office of 3 that wear one. It would be nice to see someone wearing one though.

Similar firm, lots of DateJusts. Once saw a Sinn 105, which is the coolest. Many Breitlings and Omegas.

I would classify the Omega Aquaterra in this realm. It works in so many environments and never seems out of place

Depends on how much you want to spend. But to be different I would go with the Zenith Chronomaster

El Primero Chronomaster Sport Stainless Steel 41mm. They have in a white face or black. Bang for your buck and you can wear it on any occasion.

I also work at a large multinational. They have introduced a health program that incentivizes step tracking, thereby effectively eliminating all but smart watches.

So, there really are no spots. The Apple watch rules them all.

Condolences

Get a cheap pedometer, one that hangs on the front of your shoes, that’ll piss them off!

Or, better still, double wrist!

There a few one watch officiandos.

Sea Dweller

GMT2

IWC (don’t know what one).

But I think Ive got the best the collection of watches in my company.

All I see all day long are Apple Watches

Apple Watches. Apple Watches everywhere.

Mostly Apple Watches at my office and a few execs with Rolexes. Best spot is actually a new coordinator who wore his dads original issue CWC field watch from Vietnam. Beautiful patina with fixed lugs 😍

Define office.....lol 🤔😜.

Coworkers mixed bag of tool ABC's, Digis, Smarties, and good smattering of tool divers and fields from Timex, to Seiko/Casio, up to Shields and Crowns.

Others I run into for work, same, more smart watches than anything else. But do see smaller portion of Analog Casio/Seiko and surprisingly more Rolex's than I'd have expected.

Best I’ve seen is an Aqua Terra. Also seen a Seiko ProSpex diver, a Bulova, and a couple G-Shocks.

I work at a factory, where if you drive a used BMW you picked up for $25K, people wonder why your a snob, but if you drive an $80K pick-up, nobody bats an eye. A Rolex would be wildly out of place.

I work in an office of 8 and when I started it was either smart watches or nothing at all. I gave everyone a watch and called it "work buddy" watch. I can say that half of them now wear a watch to work and the other half stayed with smart watches, 2 of the colleagues are beginners in collecting... Me wearing a different watch every day of the year helped as some times they buy the watch off my wrist.

Agreed. I wear mine to the office from time to time.

Sure am! Hahaha 😂

Mostly Apple Watches. I’ve only found 2 others who had interest and one collected Boluva watches. The other was wearing an Oris Chronograph and had his Dad’s original Accuteon Spaceview.

Seen the execs wearing Rolex Hulk, Cartier Drive, and Omega SMP older version. The ladies will wear Rolex datejust. Nothing special here, most of the people are wearing Apple watch or Garmin, which is sad. My boss even wear nothing 🤦🏻‍♂️

Oh, I know exactly what made me jump up in my chair!

2019, big tech corporation, an open-space office, with a too much people for the size of the room. Most of the engineers and managers were wearing Apple Watches, also a lot of Garmins, specially if someone's vehicle of choice is a bicycle or if they have a huge interest in sports, but the one that genuinely blew me away was a somewhat rare soviet digital watch.

This is an Elektronika 1 (b6-03), vintage digital watch, designed and manufactured at engineering bureau of PULSAR Science Institute in Moscow. Like all of the good stuff in Soviet Union, those were luxury watches, unavailable to wider public.

This digital watch was a symbol of status, success and wealth, but people who bought this watch often weren't wearing it, instead it was hidden on the shelves, so if you manage to find this model, usually it's gonna be in a mint condition, or even a NOS.

You can see some similarities in design between this watch and a western digital pieces of the era. Futuristic design, inspired by the idea of space exploration, the blend of smooth and strict angular lines, grooved finish (which looks sloppy, to be honest) and a bright red led dial, which is activated by pressing the button on a side of the case. Overall, this is a trendy design of the era. It wasn't produced by a dedicated watchmaking establishment, so it looks very, very industrial and lacks refinement or basically any delicacy.

How much it costed back then? The price was 120 rubbles. Engineers were super well paid in soviet union, and a monthly salary of an engineer was a 110-130 rubbles. So you can see, that this watch wasn't a cheap endeavour. If we convert it in USD, using real commercial SUR-USD exchange rate, this watch would you cost around 15 bucks. Right now you can get it in mint condition for around 30-50 bucks.

So, it's not the crazy Swiss high-end piece, so why do I talk so much about it? Well, it's because I've had this one myself! I was really surprised to see this watch in the wild, specially in a such smartwatch dominated environment. I loved mine, but sold it to one of my friends, because he's been begging me to do so lol. Dude been making offers every time I talked to him) Sold the watch for a 100$, so made some profit, but man, was this annoying.

Anyway, this was my most interesting spot in a workplace. After corona lockdowns 99% of our tech companies went full remote with an optional offices, so I didn't had a chance to spot more pieces. I've seen couple of 5KX during my job interviews, but other than this - Apple Watch dominates on a wrists of corporate IT workers. Even like C-level managers are wearing Apple, I remember working as a CTO and I was the only guy wearing a "dumb" watch.)

And on my second job as a sound engineer, I mostly see retro classic Casios, like A158, A168, f91w, etc. Those are super popular amongst musicians and considered very trendy and stylish.

I work at an Official Rolex Jeweler, so i see a lot of Rolex, varying from OPs to GMTs to daytonas, and datejusts. We do have clients coming in with extraordinary pieces of all makes though

My workplace might be a bit unique. Besides steel and two tone Rolex Submariners and DJs (lots of them), I’ve spotted others wearing:

• Speedmaster

• Hublot Big Bang

• IWC Portofino

• B&M Riviera

• AP Royal Oak Offshore

• A rose gold root beer GMT Master

• Daytona

• GS Snowflake and Skyflake

• Oris Aquis

• A Patek, grand complication I think but I didn’t get a close look at it

A C level at my office wears a birth year gold DateJust on a black leather strap - looks really nice but when sitting next to them in a meeting I noticed the time is completely wrong (explains a lot actually :D

Ummm, this feels unfair for me. Tons of Seiko, Longines, Omega, Rolex, Zenith, etc.... A few good vintage pieces like an original Heuer Skipperera, but the best was seeing a Roger Smith. Though honestly we still get excited over a new G-Shock around the office as well.

A few not wearing a smart watch but all quartz apart from someone with a Swatch Sistem 51

Real patina that sounds rare

Directors and above tend to rock two-tone Datejusts with the occasional Sub, more or less as a status symbol around my industry BUT our CEO had a back dial Explorer II which is not rare but certainly uncommon out in the “wild”

I am afraid mine only. Everybody else wear Apple Watches or no watches at all

My boss and mentor wears a Date Just that pre-dates Seiko starting their tenure as a quartz peddling troublemaker.

Pelagos, datejust, Tag aaaaand of course: my Seiko.

I have those colleagues (international office), who you can talk about watches if you have even just a 2-minute coffee brake. I think we encouriged others to start wearing watches even if it is just a Fossil fashion piece. I would say: mission accomplished 👏

.. and the photo describet it well in the post: I check the time on my watch, even with 3 screens plus a projector in front of me.

Not counting my watches 🤓? A couple of Tudor BB58s, a Mido Worldtimer, a Tissot PRX Chronograph, a few Omegas ( Planet Ocean, Speedmaster, an undetermined woman’s model, an older de Ville I think). I work in a major division of a large nonprofit, so to speak, so not a lot a watch enthusiasts around. And nobody making Wall Street money (I know, I’m the HR guy 😬).