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Well now gentlemen, let's at least get the nomenclature correct, as we "lawyers" are all about that. Like all limbs, there is the anterior(front), posterior(back), medial(side closest to the center line of the body) and lateral(side furthest form the center line of the body) aspects of the arm/wrist. The starting point is similar to DaVinci's famous drawing - body facing forward with palms facing forward. So where our friend wears his watch is the anterior (front) and where most of us wear our watches is the posterior (back). Wearing a watch "on the side" would be on the lateral or medial aspects.

Therein lays my confusion with "on the inside." I like most wear my watch on the posterior (back) portion of my wrist, Alan likes his on the anterior (front) portion of his wrist, and no one I know likes the sides (lateral or medial).

Here endeth the lesson.

I´m afraid you have to pass the bar exam to call the "upper" wrist posterior ........

married to a competent doctor, she does agree with you.
I stand corrected and rephrase:

I´m afraid you have to pass the bar exam - or be a doctor not interested in patient communication - to call the "upper" wrist posterior ........

My father always wore his watch on the inside of the wrist, and for him it was originally for practical reasons. During WW!! he was a navigator on Lancaster bombers and needed to be able to monitor maps, equipment and time. By wearing the watch on the inside of the wrist he could still see it when reaching up to the equipment in front of him or using his arm to stop the maps from blowing away (obviously not pressurised cabins and the navigator desk could apparently get quite drafty when the bomb doors were open or when holes had been shot in the plane).

After the war he just kept wearing it on hte inside out of habit.

Might be ww2 then, but I hope I'm not talking out of my upper.

Uk joke....the don't like it upem...


Golden rectangle anyone?

Actually, Josh, Breitling is one of the only manufacturers that has a solution for you !

Many - very nice - 70s pieces do have the crown on the left side; these watches are often wrongly described as "left handed", although there was a technical reason with the Cal. 11/12 to move the crown to the left side.

If you want to google those, ref. no. (probably incomplete) are:
Navitimer/Cosmonaute 1806/1809
Navitimer/Cosmonaute 8806/8809
Chronomat 1808
Chronomat 8808
Copilot/Yachting 7651/7661
superOcean/GMT 2105/2115
Chrono-Matic 2110/2111/2112/2114/2118/2120/2121/2122/2130
transOcean 2119/2129


and, of course, the "revival" pieces between 2004 and 2008:
Chrono-Matic *41360
Chrono-Matic LE 24H a22360
Chrono-Matic SE a41350

actually, probably one of the fields where Breitling - by far - offers more choices than any other brand.



Alan, most of us probably understood - and read before - that you like to wear your watch on the inside of your wrist, just lawyers need a little help ...
Apparently you find this more comfortable, although I fail to understand why ? My wrist (and most other, I would assume) bends downwards more than up, so anything that "bites" into your hand would then bite into your palm ? Or do you wear it like this because you are just too shy to show your watches ?

Lol it's a catch phrase from a BBC comedy "dads army" referring to the Boer war I believe.