Bigger size watch is the new trend?

[dvdwyn]

my first and second rolex is DJ II, and my third going to be a DD.. :)
IMO, DD 36mm is a holy grail all time classic watch for me..

bought the DJII 40mm because it is more casual sporty for me.. :)
still need 36mm for certain events.. :) i'll get it when i get older when it fits my style better or when i have sudden cashflow.. :)

[Route 66]

Originally Posted by SteelerFan65

Actually- completely disagree with your statement again. Let me say this one last time- Panerai has been making large watches- 47mm in fact for 9 decades. I highly doubt that they will be relics or things of past. Just as AP has been making large watches for many years along with IWC. You might not like them but many of us do. Sorry but those are simple facts. Again- to each his own and for me I love diversity in my collection and welcome all sizes! So- I will take that bet any day...

You're missing my point. Only a very small percentage of the population wears the brands of watches you've named. I'm talking about a general trend in design, not the watches produced by few high-end watch manufacturers. If you walk through a department store's watch department, you can easily see that watch styles have changed over the years and that cycle is likely to continue.

For the record, I never said that I didn't like larger watches, only that they are less comfortable to wear than a smaller watch.

[HL65]

Originally Posted by SteveArn

You're missing my point. Only a very small percentage of the population wears the brands of watches you've named. I'm talking about a general trend in design, not the watches produced by few high-end watch manufacturers. If you walk through a department store's watch department, you can easily see that watch styles have changed over the years and that cycle is likely to continue.

For the record, I never said that I didn't like larger watches, only that they are less comfortable to wear than a smaller watch.

Got it...That isn't how your post read to me as it simply said that you would bet 44mm watches would be relics and a thing of the past. Didn't see anything that pointed to exception of certain high end manufacturers which are the very ones our members follow and collect. HAGWE...

[HDHNTER]

Originally Posted by DreambreaX

yes this is true. some of them like a "man' watch. but they can't wear it, because it is build for a man.

[DreambreaX]

Originally Posted by horseco

Classic 36/40mm watches are timeless... I am not sure larger case sizes will stand the test of time...

how about yatchmaster 2 gold? Its 44mm. I personally believe all rolex are timeless

http://www.rolex.com/en#/rolex-watch...d-m116688-0001

[Xenophon]

I prefer larger watches nowadays as my eyes are weaker and in dim light I can have trouble reading the time on < 40mm watches. Or am I just a fashion whore ?

[DreambreaX]

Originally Posted by DreambreaX

how about yatchmaster 2 gold? Its 44mm. I personally believe all rolex are timeless

http://www.rolex.com/en#/rolex-watch...d-m116688-0001

anyone?

[ducatidoc]

Originally Posted by DreambreaX

anyone?

Boy, is the white gold version of that Ym-II ever sharp. That could find its way onto my wrist with ease.

[DreambreaX]

It makes me more convincing that people are wearing big watch today. I believe the future size watch will be bigger than ever.

[GradyPhilpott]

To be honest many of these huge watches have been used as tool watches since before WWII and before that pocket watches have been converted to wristwatches.

During WWII, several watch companies made pilot's watches that were at or near 50mm.

The issue is not really how long Panerai, IWC and some others have been making their huge watches.

The real indicator of fashion is what the mainstream wears.

As I and others have noted, the larger watches won't go away. They never really went anywhere. They were just ignored by most people until the trend started toward larger and the "great race" for largeness began.

I'm 62. I graduated from high school in 1967. Pegged pants, button down shirts, weejuns, and double-breasted blazers, and short haircuts were all the rage. Ties one inch wide were being replaced by ties a couple of inches wide. Watchbands were mostly expansion or leather and their widest point was at the lugs.

Four years later, guys were wearing bell-bottoms or flairs, shirts with long pointy collars, wide belts, stirrup boots, and shoulder-length hair. Ties could be used as a mask in a hold-up. Watch bands were wider than the watches.

That's just a four year span. Those newer trends lasted awhile, but today there is a far wider range of acceptable styles that encompass things that were popular when I graduated to things we might have never imagined in our wildest "trips."

Some of the young people of today who buy large, expensive watches will be wearing those watches on their deathbeds six decades hence.

A lot of young people who now buy large cheap watches will go through a panoply of incremental changes until they lie down for the last time or they spring for that expensive watch of a lifetime, whatever that size will be.

The range of watch sizes will always remain roughly where they are and have been since the introduction of wristwatches.

It is be bulge in the bell curve that will drift one way and then the other in perpetuity or until wristwatches themselves become obsolete.

A lot of companies are dedicated to seeing that that never happens.

[GradyPhilpott]

Originally Posted by DreambreaX

It makes me more convincing that people are wearing big watch today. I believe the future size watch will be bigger than ever.

Bigger than what?

I've seen watches in excess of 50mm awkward teenage boys.

There must be a logical limit to what will fit on a man's wrist.

[gold canyon]

Agreed. Very nice history also.