Which hand should a lady wear her watch on?

Question

Also, should the face of the watch be on the inside i.e on the same side as her palm or facing outwards?

Answer 1

Women wear watches on their wrist, not their hand. And it's personal preference for the left wrist (usually worn on the left if right handed) or the right wrist (usually worn on the right if left handed).

As for the watch face being on the outside or inside, it is usually worn facing out. But it is not wrong to wear it the other way.

Answer 2

A watch should be on the wrist opposite of the writing hand. ex. if I am right handed, i would wear my watch on me left wrist. This is so just in case my right hand is occupied, i have no trouble looking to see what time it is. The face doesnt really matter, whatever is most comfortable. I know that when i wear a watch, mine is facing outwards when my hand is down.

Answer 3

I wear my watch to suit my needs. During the fifties many clothing manufacturers made clothes in such a similar way, for example the buttons were on one side for men and the other for women, that if someone wore their clothing another way, they were ridiculed.
The effort to keep buttons on any particular side outlasted many other trends, but now I find my buttons on both sides, depending on the manufacturer, not the sex.

It was so with watches. There was a time when a lady wore her watch with the face toward the back of the hand, and only on her left hand, or she was ridiculed. I'm sure you can imagine the insults hurled at women who wore a watch on the right hand. As a society we have progressed since then. Now, you wear a watch, or the buttons, or whatever you choose, how YOU like it.

I had gotten used to wearing my watch on my left hand, but when I became a hairdresser I was always ruining my watches by forgetting to take them off when I shampooed by clients. I just stopped wearing them for a while, but with a new job I had, the watch worked best on my left arm again.
After a few years of wearing it there, I noticed I had a lot of pain in my arm. So, it turns out I have a nerve disease and the watch was compressing my nerve, causing the pain. Now I wear it on my right arm again, when I remember to wear it all! Often I tell the time with my cell phone...

Answer 4

I believe it should be worn on the left hand, regardless of whether you are right-handed or not. It is easier to wound up. It is a matter of personal preference regarding facing inside or outside. I buy watches because I like the design of the face, and therefore, I wear it facing outwards (otherwise it's just like a bracelet).

Answer 5

It is really a personal decision.
If you are right handed, it is normal to wear the watch on the left hand as then you can look at it while you are doing an action with your other hand.
If you are left handed, it is normal to wear the watch on the right hand, same deal as with the right.
Another decision is how to wear the watch once you have established which hand to wear it on:
You can either wear facing up toward you face or down on the table, whatever you choose.

Answer 6

You should wear your watch on whatever wrist feels comfortable for you. Usually, the rule of thumb is to wear your watch on the wrist of the hand that you do not write with. The face of the watch should be on the outside because the face has a better chance of being scratched if it's worn on the inside.

Answer 7

Left handed people wear watch on the right hand. Right handed people wear it on the left hand. Most people wear the face outward, but it is a personal preference and can be worn either way.

Answer 8

Women wear watches on their wrist, not their hand. And it's personal preference for the left wrist (usually worn on the left if right handed) or the right wrist (usually worn on the right if left handed). That way if your working with your predominant hand it won't get broke incase you move that hand around alot.
Outside or inside:
As for the watch face being on the outside or inside, it is usually worn facing out. But it is not wrong to wear it the other way, again, for safety reasons, so the watch doesn't get broke. It is also turned so that when you look at it you can see the time, & so that the watch face isn't upside down!

Answer 9

Most people wear their watch on their non-dominate wrist. Right handed people on the left, left handed people on the right. It gets in the way less that way. Face inward or outward is just a personal preference.

Answer 10

Everyone I know (other than my sister, who knows she does it differently) wears a watch on the left hand, usually with the face on the outside.

These days, like a lot of other formerly hard-and-fast rules of etiquette, what matters most here is how you're comfortable. My sister has tried wearing her watch on the "correct" arm, and the result was pretty funny: she would check her left arm EVERY time. She also just couldn't get it fastened using her right hand.

Typically, most jewelry is to be worn facing out.

Answer 11

Being a natural lefty -- I wear the watch on my RIGHT Wrist. The reason that I wear the watch with the face downwards (Palm-side) is that I participate in Sports, and to avoid having damage to the FACE of the watch .. it is much better to have the face pointing downwards (especially so when I was enjoying Fencing -- the face did not get scratched).

Now ... if one is right-handed ... then wear the watch on the Left Wrist.