any recommendations for wrist beads, bracelets?
any recommendations for wrist beads, or bracelets that work well with watches as accessories?
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jroobz
I got into watches during the pandemic. I listened to Pusha T 'Daytona' and that was the beginning of the end
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Wear a slim and discrete metal cuff or chain bracelet on the other arm, preferably matching metals with the watch case.
Cheap plastic beads or fabric bracelets look gaudy and juvenile and cheapen the look of your watch. Anything worn on the same arm will scratch the case.
Wear a slim and discrete metal cuff or chain bracelet on the other arm, preferably matching metals with the watch case.
Cheap plastic beads or fabric bracelets look gaudy and juvenile and cheapen the look of your watch. Anything worn on the same arm will scratch the case.
I've seen a few posts on here that look awesome with jewellery alongside watches.
Slash wears it well too
I mostly just buy one of the thousands of interchangeable bead bracelets offered on Etsy for ~$10/ea. My personal taste is for a bracelet with only one type of material/bead, which makes pairing them with the watch a bit simpler (the cohesion also reduces the hippie vibe a little, relative to a bunch of mismatched pieces). I get these in different bead sizes, so they offer scale options too.
At my peak bracelet deployment, I like one solid-color leather wrap + one bead bracelet + the watch on the one arm and a single contrasting bracelet on the other (typically leather, cord, or metal) for visual balance. That said, I've been trending toward no extra bracelets on the watch side, and only the counterbalance bracelet on the opposite arm. Just feeling like keeping it tidier currently, I guess. (Plus, I think I've observed extra scratches developing due to rubbing against the beads.)
I got a couple of job lots of fabric & leather bands off AliX. For beads I've got stone beads in various colours from Tateossian. I don't like metal beads or bracelets.
I usually put a fabric between the stones to ward off the scratches.
One of my pet hates is beads on same wrist as a watch. On opposite wrist I sometimes wear a Leatherman Tread, a handy wearable multitool.