Welcome to this Watch live. Hi, I'm Lydia Winters.
And I'm Foo Bowie. Today we're going to talk about
Double Wristing. Double wristing.
Wearing a watch on each wrist or wearing something on each wrist.
Yes, it can also be wearing 2 watches on one wrist, but I
disagree with that name because that there's the double wrist.
Yeah, but so. Then there's not people use.
It to mean the same thing, but I do like this.
One name that I found was 2 timing, which works for both
because it's true. Unless you're Ryan Gosling and
Barbie and then you're 3 timing. Yeah, I didn't know there was
such like a variety in how. Yeah, I think that's just like a
silly name, but I was like it's more accurate for 2 watches on
the same hand. 2 timing Yeah, yeah I agree.
And double wristing I feel needs 2 wrists involved.
Yes, I think so, because it's double wristing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I've done this for many,
many years. Yeah, you have.
Wait, wait, wait. Wait.
Wait.
Why do you sound so about it? Well, because for many moons I
was in about it, so I thought I could channel the listener.
You're channeling you previous, Lydia.
Previous Lydia who was like. That is.
Stupid. Well, OK.
No, I I feel very confident that you said it was stupid.
I was a hater. I'm.
I'll be the first to admit I was a hater.
Not publicly, but at home I was like, no.
Yeah, I I believe our listeners by now have have a picture of
you and they know that when you see something for the first
time, I hate your natural instinct.
It doesn't mean always you hate everything, but I believe your
natural instinct is rejection first.
Yeah, I am a rejection first. Even when you said let's do an
episode on double wristing, I was like the same, the same
noise as when. Is the first time you saw me
double wrist? Yes.
Okay. So it's just for me.
It is something that I have a long history with.
You do. In 2016, I bought that because I
had skipped the first Apple Watch because I'm like, well, I
really like wearing mechanical watches.
Why am I going to wear this? But by the time they released
the Series 2, then I was like, OK, there are too many benefits
to wearing this. I'm just going to get it and
wear it on my other wrist and see how it goes.
And that was in 2016. Because you love data.
I do love data. I have not stopped double
wristing since, though. I haven't always double wristed
an Apple Watch, but you wanted to go through the reasons to
double wrist and I think that's a good place.
Well, we can, yeah. But we can start with.
So your reason to double wrist from the beginning was being
able to keep the love of the mechanical watch, but then also
have all the data and information, which I think is
one of the IT is a big reason for people whether it's a
Fitbit. We had a whoop strap for a while
that was like, what kind of my gateway into wearing 2 watches
was wearing the whoop strap. I was like, it's not that bad
and. It wasn't have two things on it.
It did not have a display. For those who don't know, Whoop
is a company that makes fitness trackers, but they do not have
displays. So it it goes on your wrist, you
can just strap it on. You only have to charge it like
once every five or six days. And it's just meant to be on
your wrist all the time. Tracks, everything, Syncs with
your phone. Yeah, it's.
Not it's targeted towards extreme athlete.
It is so obviously exactly. So we all sort of wishful.
Thinking from the start. Yeah, it's like, if you buy,
it's like so many things. If you buy a pilot's watch, it's
kind of like, aren't you kind of already a pilot then, Yeah?
You know, no, I don't think anyone says that.
No. I think it's more like you're
you're flying high in your career.
That kind of pilot it's. More of the feeling of.
Just flying high in your wishful thinking.
Yeah, probably. OK, another reason to double
wrist two time zones. Or more, yeah.
I mean, I think that this is something that is just kind of a
fun way to do it. I think it's more of a that, to
me is just a pure excuse. It's like you couldn't think of
a better reason. You're like, all right, fine.
I I I need to track two time zones so I wear 2 watches.
Whoa, this guy that's been double wristing for like.
I don't need years. Is like your reason is not very
good. No, I'm just saying it's thin.
It's a very thin excuse. Well, but I think that's kind of
nice because maybe you haven't found a nice TMT that you like
to wear. You could wear a little bit of
variety. There's some something nice
about being able to look down and just quickly see see the
times. You kind of like train yourself,
you train yourself. Into which risk do you need to
look at for which time? And if one or both of them are
multi time zone watches like they're either GMTS or?
Yeah, I'm definitely not doing that.
Then you could just have all the zones.
No, thank you all the zones. Then I will open up my phone and
I will look at the time zone app.
I. Agree with that, right?
Like I I completely disagree with people who say, oh, it's
way easier to just look at your phone than it is to wear a
watch. I completely disagree.
Because you just barely turn your wrist.
You get to know the time. That's way easier than.
I mean, not everyone keeps their phone in their pocket, but I
disagree that that's easier. However, wearing multiple time
zones on multiple wrists, I do not necessarily think that's
easier than just looking at your phone.
Still valid but not. Easier.
No, not easier. Not easier.
Yeah, The next one I really like though, and that's just
sentimental value. And so there is quite a few
examples of different people who double wrist.
They have one watch. In the case of Prince William,
he has an Omega C Master 300 from Princess Diana, and he
wears that on one wrist and on the other one a Garmin tracker.
Again, I think maybe he just wears it that way, more like
you. And it just happens to be that
one is sentimental and one is tracking, but it's still kind of
a little more romantic or people who wear, you know, OK, perfect.
Yeah, we can ask him why, but also Princess Diana.
Lady Di wore 2 watches on the same wrist.
SO2 timing and which, yeah, I. Don't know if I.
Don't think it's a great name, I feel.
Like, but it's funny. We'll just say stacking, yeah.
And that was back before she and Prince Charles were were married
and she was wearing his watch and her watch and his was to
like say you know good luck in the game that you're you're in.
So I really like that or other people wearing like 2 mechanical
watches, one you know, from different people and like doing
a time zone where they were born.
And yeah, I think again, this is more the romantic side that if
that appeals to you in order to be able to say like do whatever
you want, then maybe that's. Yeah, Yeah, what?
What these really are, you're just helping people have excuses
to. Be like OK.
And if someone asks them about it, they have a cool answer.
Yeah, it's like, Oh well, this watch, you know, represents my
first dog that I ever had who sadly passed away.
Oh, our podcast doesn't have animals passing.
Well, my first dog was 35 years ago.
I guess it would be more late breaking news if it was still.
That would be late breaking. News.
So OK I also I had a colleague that that used to work with with
us but he wore 2 watches but he said it was for balance and he
was he wore the same exact watch on both sides.
They were both Seiko orange monsters and I remember for a
while one was broken but he's like yeah but it doesn't really
matter because he only wore 2 to feel balanced.
It felt weird for him to have something on one wrist and I.
You can relate to that. That's you very much.
Because sometimes I'm a little tired of wearing an Apple Watch.
It just happens, right? Like, And then I'll I'll I'll
still wear it for sleep because I want all that data, and I'll
still wear it for workouts because I want the data.
But then when I'm not doing those things, then I don't want
to wear it. But then it feels weird to not
have. Something, yeah.
So then I'll put on either like, sometimes I'll just pick
something that's really fun, like a Casio databank little
calculator watch or just due to mechanical watches.
And it's like, OK. For those of us who collect
watches, I think this might be the best reason to double wrist
completely. Like for those of us who
collect, we want to wear our watches.
Yeah, we don't want them just sitting there.
In a place as much time you can. Double risk to get double time
with your watches. You can enjoy two at the same
time. Risks for a reason and so you
can wear now. People are using their necks
like we can just have watches everywhere.
I'm kind of in for this. It just watches everywhere.
We do have two risks for a reason.
But for back to your the balance one, which I like and I think to
highlight like how much this is you as a person is you have a
tattoo on each arm in the same spot.
They're different things, but they're the same shape.
Because you were like I do not like this asymmetry.
No, I did not. I have one, so I'm like
asymmetry. Yay.
Yeah, so I got I I got a tattoo on one forearm and then maybe a
year later. You were like, yeah, I need
another one in the same spot. Yeah, I wanted to be the same
shape, same size, same spot, but different subject.
So it is. It is a different tattoo.
OK, so we'll then we'll go into what finally broke me down into
this, this place that I had been very against, like very against.
I was like, it's weird, I don't like it.
I don't want anyone to say do you have 2 watches on?
I. Don't I like, I really like
fashion wise don't like I was like you.
Were about as against it as you could be.
Yes. But then in 2020, as I was
getting like, then I was really getting more into watches and
just wearing watches all the time again and just starting to
buy more watches. But then when the pandemic hit,
I also wanted all the data, yeah.
So I was like, no. Yeah, I.
Mean. This makes sense now I.
Remember that period of time? Like, really wanting to be able
to focus on data that could give us a better picture of our
immediate health? Yeah, like, how are things
going? And there was data that came out
that showed that respiratory rate tracking could actually
give you early indicators of being sick and all of these.
Things so. We yeah.
Then we bought. Whoops.
Yeah, so I started with that whoop strap which has no
display, no display, which was was nice and then I just have
like a neutral black. But then over time I was like it
doesn't it, it actually doesn't matter.
And again, most of us who love watches, we're like everyone
notices my watch. You just wish that.
But no one does. Almost no one ever asks me it
why I have 2 watches on like even with the Apple Watch it's
very rare and so it's not like this this hot topic.
I still when it's like long sleeve time I'm very happy
double wristing. When it's short sleeve I push or
I leave one. I leave one sleeve down and one
sleeve up to show the nice beautiful.
One or you sometimes leave your Apple Watch off.
If you go to something in the summer where you don't have long
sleeves, you do sometimes leave your.
Apple Watch. But that is just the personal
preference of. I really liked it, like
asymmetric feeling of A1 watch on.
I really like that. So to me, the balance is the
negative. I don't like when it's balanced.
It feels unbalanced for me. It's interesting.
I wonder how much of your rejection of it is like
physical, like the feeling of it versus just the fact that people
want, you know, like, OK, the all these rules that exist that
make people self-conscious about trying new things, whether it's
style or whatever. Like I think they're ridiculous
and outdated and we should not have these rules.
It's it's just a way to to get people angry, essentially.
But as long as there are people, that means that people will want
to fit into things. And in order to fit in, you kind
of have to have outsiders. Because the best way to bond is
to say, hey, those people are not us, right?
So. I think there will always be
people who look at someone else and say, hey, you're doing it
wrong, because that is kind of just the way we are as people.
But in the community of watch enthusiasts, I would love to
just see more acceptance entirely of like, hey, different
people have different needs, requirements, wants, desires,
like all of that stuff, and they can just do what they want as
long as they're not making me do it.
So I did for a long time hope that someone would try to call
me out for wearing 2 watches. No one did.
No one calls you I have worn. I have double wristed on videos.
That happened. Millions and millions of views.
And it's very clear that I'm double wristing and I have
looked through all the comments and there's nothing like people
don't care. Yeah, no one cares.
No, I mean, unless you're Rihanna or Taylor Swift wearing
a watch around your necklace, around your neck as a necklace.
People don't care. Like even that the majority of
people would not have noticed naturally that it was a watch.
Or they. And then they just think it's
cool, like, oh, that's awesome, you have a watch on.
Like, I'm just happy if anyone notices a watch now I'm like,
oh, thank you for noticing too. Yeah.
I will say the very few times that people have noticed that
I've worn 2 watches, it's almost always in a meeting where you're
sitting like. For a long.
Period of time across the table from someone and it's always
been with just curiosity. And they're wearing too much.
Yeah, and then that person always has regretted asking,
because then they got to hear Voo Booey go on and on about the
benefits of wearing an Apple Watch and a mechanical watch.
Yeah, the the take away is don't ask VU questions if you don't
want a long, long, long long long long long long long long
long. Sometimes people need to learn
lessons. But we would love to know where
you currently stand on Double Wristing.
I'm not going to say on 2 timing because I think yeah on on
multiple wrists, multiple watches on wrists.
Thanks everyone. Bye.