Dresswatch as a daily watch?

There are also people that choose off road vehicles for driving around on paved roads, and I don't understand them either. I mean unless we apply that theory of David Brooks's that the bourgeois bohemian thinks of every purchase as an opportunity to display their intellect, their superiority. Applicability is apparently secondary to bragging rights for some.

If I plan to go for a swim that day I wear a watch with some water resistance. If I'm working on a bike I wear a watch I'm fine with getting scratches up.

On all normal days I just wear a watch I like, be it dress, dive, ...

Dress watches are occasional wear for me.  Years ago I had a couple of very high end solid gold dress watches and found they get scratched and damaged very easily.  I didn’t like that about them.

With 100m WR I don't have to worry about dipping my hands into water. If a dresswatch is capable of that I'd wear it everywhere.

I sometimes like the style of dress watches, but they are often a little too sparse or old fashioned to my taste. Fundamentally though, I also have the mindset that I don’t want to take my watch off for anything, and since that may include a variety of things that would kill a dress watch stone dead, I don’t tend to wear them. They are simply too fragile for day to day wear. And a lot of the time, they don’t even fit in with what I am wearing day to day either.

Digital likely suits my appearance, age, and day to day needs… but then these days, so does a tool watch.

I need proper water resistance too. (I even distrust fifty metres a little if I am honest, let alone thirty or ten.) 

Basically, I can see why Bond also owns an Aqua Terra these days. Maybe I should get something like that…

I work in an office and 95% of the time I'm at a desk. I mean, I work on the flightline and almost everyone wears jeans and t-shirt/polo and tennis shoes but still.  For me, a dress watch would be totally fine.

Having said that, I really don't have any traditional dress watches.  Closest is my Zelos Comet 39, my Pepsi on jubilee, and my Milgauss.  When I dress up, for example when going to the theater with my wife and kid to see Moulin Rouge like last night, the Pepsi gets the call.

I misunderstood the question. I'll absolutely wear a dress watch on a daily basis. But gold, no way. I may try to sneak them in every once in a while when I am fairly sure I have a genteel day ahead of me, but my average day is too rough-and-tumble for a solid gold dress watch (and vintage at that).

I rarely dress up nowadays, so I end up with sport or tool watches. In the other hand, I work from home, so I can add dressier watches in my rotation. Problem is that I have only few watches that I can dress up.

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I will wear any of my watches at any time and remove it if I feel it's in danger of scratching or breaking. 

Why do I prefer tool watches?

Because that preference removes 99% of that concern from my life. 

Sadly, I'm of a financial status where I have to do some manual labor, so a dress watch just would not be practical. 

Plus, I like clicky-clicky bezels

Dress watches are fine for office workers like many of us here. The tools of my trade are keyboards, copiers, paper and pens.  

Indeed, my only watch for 20+ years was, for me at least, a dress watch (the 2 toned DJ I got as a wedding present).  I DID take it off when doing yard work but otherwise it was my daily wearer regardless of the occasion because it was my one watch (2 tones are versatile).

The follow up question is do you wear tool/ dive watches to the office or to formal occasions when you know there is no risk of submersion or real damage?  Well, unless you are talking about that odd somewhat oxymoronic category of Dress Divers.  First world problems.

I've been team "tool watch" for years, but this summer I got what for me is a dress watch.  

I know, opinions will vary on that, but it showed me that I'd be totally ok with something like this Serica daily.  I don't even own a suit, so there's not much call for me to wear anything fancier that this.

The only thing I don't love is that I forget to wind it, so at least every other day I'm walking around with a dead watch.

I could get away with a dress watch 90% of the time, but the 10% would likely damage it. With a tool watch I can wear my watch for 99% of what I do without fear of damage. 

That said, a tool watch doesn't need to be this:

Both of these I consider more "tool" than "dress":

Let's face it.. regardless of what you call it, tool watch or dress watch a wrist watch is really a piece of jewelry. I have around 100 wrist watches and a few pocket watches. I wear a different watch every day depending on what I'm going to do or how I'm dressed. Without exception none of my watches have even so much as a hint of a scratch or a ding. I would never consider wearing any of my wrist watches while doing manual labor.. which luckily I don't have to do anymore. When I was working I was in uniform and still chose a watch for the possibilities of the situation I may have encountered. In those situations I set aside an all stainless steel watch and bracelet with a 5 mm thick Sapphire crystal and Sapphire bezel with a Swiss quartz movement and 10 year battery rated for water resistance at a thousand meters. If it did become marked up on the band I can easily make it look like new. I still have it and considered my "beater". If something were to happen to it I wouldn't have cried very much because I did not spend a lot of money on it. However nowadays I do baby it because I can't replace it at any price. 

I chose tool watch as daily but not for the reason listed originally. It's not about the WR or the specs.

I like simple tool watches because they are inconspicuous. Nobody will ever know how rich or broke I am when I wear a Seiko or a G-Shock and very few will glance twice at most of the other watches I choose to wear. I do own "flashier" watches but none of them give this "luxury watch" vibe and I don't wear them often in public.

For me its a very simple calculation of "What am I doing today and would the watch I WANT to wear survive my day without being coddled?" 

If it would, I wear that.

If it won't, I wear one that will. 

95% of my days I could probably wear a dress watch just fine.

I reckon jeans, t-shirt and a Cartier Tank are a very nice combination.  

I have no reason to wear a dress watch everyday, but sometimes that’s all I want to wear. I’m glad that I was able to find dress watches with SS cases, sapphire crystals, and screw down crown with 100m WR. Otherwise I might not have gotten them.

I wear my vintage King Seiko a lot nowadays, especially to my place of work. I don't have any concerns regarding water resistance because I just sit at a desk for most of the day. 

Tool watch everyday , all day usually . Mainly because I like the way they look. I don't find dressy watch's appeal to my sense of style.

I wear watches for the occasion and most of the time, that’s work, so dress pieces get a lot of wear. But I also sometimes rotate when I get home to a tool or beater, because kids, dog, and dishes  

Honestly, I am a tool watch person. But since my office work requires me to wear a coat and tie, my daily would be a dress watch. I manage to sneak in my tool watches once in a while in the rotation but if it were entirely up to me, I would prefer tool watches on a daily basis. I am reminded by a tag line in the our firearms community, "It is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it".

some? everybody!

Ive got a bigger collection that gives me all sorts of options - generally I just pick a watch that matches my mood.  Sometimes a bit of tooly madness sometimes something uber dressy and everything inbetween

With me it all depends I might have to wear a dress watch for a rear occasion. Or if I had a job where I'm always dress up of course I have more of the dress watch line up instead of one.

Some watches are more versatile than others, most of the time I wear a Max Bill, with different straps it suits most occasions for me