Pocket Watches and Waistcoats

[spr0k3t]

I'm curious on this one. I have a few pocket watches I like to trade out when I'm wearing a waistcoat and wanted to know if others do the same. I don't use them to keep time. It's more for just the show piece more than anything. I have an Omega, and two Elgin watches. I find they add a good bit of flair to the finished outfit. I don't see them very much with my fellow kilters though. Would love to know your thoughts on this.

[COScotsman]

I usually wear a pocket watch with a waistcoat. Since I don't use a wristwatch mine completes the look and is practical.

[Jock Scot]

I regularly carry a pocket watch.......it keeps very good time.....and chain when wearing a tweed waistcoat and sometimes without the waistcoat with the T bar of the chain threaded through the button hole in the lapel of my tweed jacket and the watch resting in the breast pocket.

I don’t( can’t) post pictures here these days, but there are pictures of me wearing my pocket watch lurking around on this website somewhere.

[ShaunMaxwell]

I’ll often wear one with smart daywear… mostly because it’s the only opportunity I have to wear mine!



Cheers,

SM

[Janner52]

I also wear a pocket watch with a waistcoat when wearing the kilt, both with tweed and with a Prince Charlie.

[MacKenzie]

I had a very nice pocket watch. I took it to a jeweler for repair. Next thing I know the shop is gone... and so was my watch.

[Macman]

I'd say I wear mine about half the time when I'm wearing a jacket and waistcoat. I really like the look, but sometimes I'd rather wear a wristwatch.

[stickman]

I had a very nice pocket watch. I took it to a jeweler for repair. Next thing I know the shop is gone... and so was my watch.

Know what you mean about losing your watch. I bought a really nice watch in China instead of numbers for the hours it had the Chinese zodiac. Well I broke the glass and took it to a jewelry repair. No problem the guy said it’ll take about a week I’ll have to order a new glass. When I went to pick up my watch it was gone. Someone needed it more than me. Then he tried to give me some cheap watch. I said no you will give me what the watch cost me and you will give me this watch, pointing out a much better watch. So I got my money back and a decent watch, but not like the one that disappeared. Now I am afraid to take my grandfathers watch in for repair.

[Pleater]

I have a pocket watch, an Ingersol, I bought it myself, some time in the late 1960s I think - it has a second hand and I used to use it to calculate speed through the water when sailing. I tripped over and lost the lanyard and keeper overboard, but held onto the watch and the boat.
It still keeps good time, but I need to adjust the regulator between summer and winter as the temperature affects it.

I do have part of a gold watch chain, but it is only long enough to make a bracelet - the ends were sold off inch by inch, or ounce by ounce when times were hard back in the days when there were shops which bought and sold gold and silver items on the High Street. In one of them the chain had a clasp and keeper chain fitted and I added a few oddments I collected as a child to make a charm bracelet.

I have seen photos of my father and his father wearing matching watches, chains and an amethyst jewel - a fob, I think it was called on the end of the chain not attached to the watch. There was a bar to put through a buttonhole and a matching clip or pin, with another amethyst to go on a tie and a small glass tube between two amethysts to go on the lapel to keep a buttonhole flower fresh. I suspect that they were for the funeral of someone a couple more generations back - there was a bit of land and money in that side of the family but grandad lost the lot.

Anne the Pleater