A couple of years ago, while climbing in the Jamieson Range behind our farm, I took an unplanned tumble down a steep scree slope. While self-arresting I felt a ripping pain inside my left wrist as it was torn open on something sharp. Once the horizon stopped going around I had time to check out the wrist, which was not ripped as badly as I'd feared. I've since recovered full function in it, but I have an interesting scar there.

Because I couldn't wear my wristwatch for a while I started wearing various of the pocket watches I've accumulated over the years (I've inherited watches from each of my grandfathers, as well as been given them now and again). I haven't gone back to the wristwatch. I've been known to brace the manager of a clothing store for buying a batch of jeans with too-small watch pockets. Amazingly, it worked and the next shipment had larger pockets.

In a Freedom Kilt, I hook the chain over my belt and put the watch in the side pocket on the right side. The chain disappears in the fringe, and since I don't put anything else in that pocket the watch is easily accessible. Likewise in a UK Mocker. In a UK Workman I run the chain down the front of the kilt and drop the watch in an outside pocket.

On rare occasions, I wear a casual vest with the kilt, and do the watch-pocket thing with it when I do. Often, though, I'm not in a situation where a casual vest/waistcoat is appropriate or needed, and I don't have a formal one.