Does your watch rotate on your wrist away from you?

[Turbo13]

It's definitely not just you, I have a 14060m that was always hanging way off North. Last time I switched back from my nato I put the strap on wrong way round. Now fits perfectly and stays dead centre! I got ribbed by an AD but doubt anyone's else would notice.

[Archduke]

My 116610 does this and it annoys me. Only solution is to wear the bracelet a little tighter than I would choose.

Luckily the clasp on the new Sub makes these fine adjustments a doddle on the fly.

With other watches like my now gone Speedy there was little I could do when wearing the bracelet.

[Ste_J]

I just play about with moving links until I get a good balance. On my Glidelock I have 4 links at 6 o'clock and 6 links at 12 o'clock for example.
I'm still in the process of trying to fine tune a super jubilee which is a bit more tricky.

[gocsan]

I wonder if this problem is due to people with big wrist? For a guy I think my wrist is small, but not too small where the case of the watch is larger than the width of my wrist. So I think this is the reason why the case of my watch fist perfectly flat on the top of my wrist and it tends to stay where it is.

[Racerdj]

I don't have this problem.

[winks]

[QUOTE=winks;5458483]The watch rotates toward the outside of the arm due to the weight of the watch and the arm position. After various tests, I have arrived at a very good solution. The watch now tends to the middle or toward the inside of the arm. This is important for me at various meetings with people in which I need a quick glance at my watch without their noticing. The watch is now always visible.
The solution requires any small piece of somewhat flexible, but firm plastic that is glued the back of the watch. (Use silicon glue, it is strong but can easily be removed when it is time to change your watch battery). The plastic should extend out from the watch about 5/8". What this does, is it effectively makes the size of the watch bigger on your wrist so that it can't move around the side of your wrist. The plastic does not completely stop rotation, but it resists rotation, so that on average, the watch is closer to the inside of the wrist. It is worked perfectly for me.

[Watchgeek5000]

That's always a problem with my watches, no matter how I size them. It seems to me the watch is falling into a spot on my wrist caused by the bones in my wrist. I'm not kidding, there's a flat part of my wrist before the bone that the watch likes to sit no matter how I size it. It always leans toward the 12:00 position. Depending on the watch, some tilt more than others. Usually doesn't happen on larger style watches especially on a strap, like a panerai.

[Olienh]

I wear my watch snug enough that I cannot rotate the watch around my wrist even with force. Of course, every human body is different and I have pretty flat wrists. Some folks might have rounder wrists which would make this more likely to happen.

[Oat Willy]

This happens people because our hands are tilted in that direction 90% of the time. Also, that side of the wrist is thinner and the other side is fatter, which aids with the watch naturally shifting to the left. It's no mystery

[tvad]

Try flipping the band around so the short link side is at 12 o'clock on the watch. Leave the clasp as is. That might work for you.

[scousejames]

This happens to me all the time with my gmt master.
What is the best way to balance it out, maybe it's my ocd but I find it slightly annoying to have to constant adjust it.
I don't even wear it loose either.

[fsprow]

Gravity cannot be overcome.

[djyolky]

Gravity

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[kieselguhr]

It happens to me when my bracelet is too loose. I set up my bracelets so that the 6 o’clock side is shorter than the 12 o’clock side, pinky finger fits between the bracelet and my wrist, and I have it sized to wear proximal (above) the wrist bone.

[Stripiest]

Originally Posted by Ken Cox

This outward rotation of the watch happens to me with metal bracelets.

I have large bony wrists and tightening the bracelet to the point of discomfort has not kept the watch from rotating on my wrist.

I don't have much body fat, and I would like to know if body fat plays a factor in this.

Same. Doesn't happen with NATO or leather straps.

[Xenon]

Must be a 40 plus mm problem as my 36mm Datejust stays put.

[Paul7]

Originally Posted by theloxmyth

Wow, I just pulled up my sleeve and wiggled my wrist really hardily.

Now, I'm sitting here thinking to my self: Self, what a great looking watch!


Mine does not move around on my wrist.

That model is pretty light, which helps.

[abozz]

I wear the watch a little bit loose and when I raise my arm to see the time the watch comes towards the center and I read perfectly. I have more links @12

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[Brny11]

Depending on wrist size and shape, it can be common. Also some watches like Rolex case back tend to fall more so than any other watch I have owned. Keep tinkering with the link configuration. My sub used to, it hardly does anymore. When it does shift, a quick snap of wrist gets it back in place. I don’t really pay attention to watches on my wrist as much as I used to, so even if it does, it really doesn’t bother me anymore.

[brandrea]

Quite an old thread but very applicable to any time frame

For me it depends ... the flatter the caseback, the better the watch sits, and the less it tends to rotate.

[Rocco21]

I wear my watches snug as I can’t stand flip flopping but my 126600 and 126660 always rotate outwards and I can’t stand it.

[shedlock2000]

Originally Posted by Oat Willy

This happens people because our hands are tilted in that direction 90% of the time. Also, that side of the wrist is thinner and the other side is fatter, which aids with the watch naturally shifting to the left. It's no mystery

I don’t think this is the case. As an earlier comment said, it doesn’t happen with my omega SMP GMT — nor my NTTD with the Milanese, but does for me with the 226570 and the 116710. It does not happen with the 1675 or 16753. So there’s something different about the later Rolex watches.

I’ve worn Rolexes for years and tweaked the number of links on the 6 side as well as fiddling with half links and so on; it still happens. I’ve larger round wrists (7.75”) so you wouldn’t think I’d suffer the trouble, but I get it with all of the 6-digits (I can’t remember far enough back to when I wore 5-digits).

[WatchGuy1966]

For all of you naysayers, you don't understand that not all wrists are exactly the same.

Sometimes no matter how it's adjusted, it will seek the flatter part of the wrist. For some of us, that's slightly not exactly flat.

Shame on you for wrist-shaming the OP.

[doublevanose82]

Only happens if I get really sweaty under the watch, the sweat acts like a lubricant which allows the watch to move a bit.

[kieselguhr]

Necro post got me. Again.

[ExplorerI]

I remove the extra links from the 6 o’clock side so that side is shorter and it pulls the face of the watch towards me.

[godx]

I have this same problem (multiple watches). My wrist seems to be a size where I never seem to be able to have an equal number of links on each side, so the watch always pulls towards the one side. It annoys me but I haven't spent enough time trying to tweak them or find a solution yet.

[cerendigit]

Same here. Just live with it. It’s just a watch.

[Robf52]

Most of mine do; it's a bit annoying but I live with it.