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It's always been said that watches should slip under a shirt's cuff.
I find my watches a lot of the time over my cuff, the cuffs are tight.
And simply watches are becoming thicker and biggers.
Maintaining under-the-cuff etiquette is being difficult.
Is it still a thing ? Does it really affect one's appearance or we have to evaluate how watches wear given the changes in watches trebds from small ones to big ones ?
my citizen promaster 14mm thick goes under most cuffs
It's still common practice. The general idea is not to shove your watch in people's faces, but have it hide under your cuff as long as you don't look at it.
I have the same issue as you. Most cuffs make it hard to wear it like that. I can do it with a diver but it doesn't automatically slide under. I have to help it a bit. I got only one super slim quartz watch that makes "under the cuff" effortlessly with my wrists. Custom shirts would help but watches are already expensive enough. ๐
Maybe find a brand of shirts with bigger cuffs. Some online tailors (if you want to go that route) offer to adjust the left cuff to allow for room for a watch.
Or simply just go with the flow of all the people that wear a 55mm Garmin apocalypse watch with a dress shirt nowadays.