The rise of watches in fashion is opening heated debates on the role watches play on our wrists, in our lives, and in the way we gender ourselves.
From Sharp Looks to Precise Movements, Grand Seiko’s Elegance Watches Are a Serious Value Buyitems and those who uphold that watches are more than, better than, and beyond fashion. I find this tension fascinating, and I think it has much to do with the complex ways thatHow Bovet's Newest Watch Solves the Horological Conundrum of Daylight Savings Time.
I’m making a rather touchy assertion—some would even call it an accusation. I understand why one wouldn’t want to think about – when indulging their hobby, but I also think enthusiast spaces are particularly rife with unchecked behavior that we know better than to indulge in professional spaces and even among family. Sometimes it is exactly our leisure time that finds us bickering from unexamined positions. I think we can learn from looking at those tendencies.
I can’t help but notice that my somewhat complex gender identity aligns with my interests in fashion and watches. The more fluid and feminine-leaning side of me tends to consider a watch as an accent to an outfit , while the more standard-issue American-dude side of me tends to geek out over specs, performance, condition and price . For me, watches are simultaneously fashion accessories and geeky mechanical objects.
If one were to fully buy into this position, one would likely more readily equate watches with jewelry than with fashion. Diamonds are forever, of course, and jewelry is handed down through the generations just as watches are. I’ve often heard people refer to watches as “jewelry for men.” As practical and straightforward as all that sounds, there is a slightly troubling component of gender at play here. Let’s consider some stereotypes to tease out what that gendered component might be.
Ernest Hemingway, 1959, an icon of American masculinity in traditional garb and small watch. A recent biographer suggests that Papa bent his gender liberally in his romantic relationships.Many men will speak of clothing—and of course watches—in the same terms that they speak of tools, cars, lawn-mowers and other functional items.
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