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 Re: The feminine side inside you [message #13193 is a reply to message #13190] |
Sun, 09 August 2020 11:32   |
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Barney Green
Messages: 1755
Registered: February 2014
Location: Wolfsburg, Germany
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As most of you know, the majority of my collection is also ladies watches. But I do not wear them. Just the mens models are worn by me, and mainly smaller models, because I also have small wrists. The biggest watch I ever wore was a 39mm diameter round model, and it looked a little odd at my wrist. The Imperial Tank is the best fit to my wrist though it is a bid long already. But it has a nicely curved back and I love wearing it.
Gruen, Gruen, Gruen ist alles was ich habe... Gruen, Gruen, Gruen is all I have...(German folklore song)
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| Re: The feminine side inside you [message #13207 is a reply to message #13190] |
Sun, 09 August 2020 20:30 |
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Ephemerald
Messages: 1039
Registered: October 2018
Location: City of Lake Salt
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Jenneke, I typically wear my Lady Gruens on special occasions...like when I go out dancing dressed to the nines in my Joyce Hubrite fun-every-minute Gruen dress. 
Sometimes my gf will wear one, a cartouche but she has her own style & isn't interested in most of the design I love.
I'm just interested in all the Gruens, y'know? They are such a diverse brand spanning decades of different designs that I think I sometimes am attracted to a ladies model. I think of myself as...collecting gruen watches. I actually do not have that many womens models.... relatively speaking.
Sometimes I purchase a watch just to answer a question I have. I study it to learn.
But yes, I really like small watches, I picked up this Strap 401 bc it's the smallest round (oval) dial I could find. Anyone know a smaller men's *dial* than this?
Matthias
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| Re: The feminine side inside you [message #13231 is a reply to message #13214] |
Mon, 10 August 2020 18:11 |
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afire
Messages: 1355
Registered: May 2013
Location: Wisconsin
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I've got no issues with small men's watches. My current favorite, and smallest, was cataloged by Gruen as a men's watch, but I know that Alpina also marketed it as a ladies' sports watch.
If I can get my '36 Master off the ground, that will be may absolute smallest, and I will happily wear it.
I'm always keeping an eye out for a 1934 Varsity.
Would I wear it? Yes, but I'd have to keep a copy of this ad in my back pocket to prove that it is a men's watch.
And should anybody wonder whether wearing a dainty watch is unmanly, I would direct them to one Mr. Huber Scott-Paine, aircraft and boat designer, record-breaking power boat racer, entrepreneur, inventor, and founder of Supermarine (of Spitfire fame).
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