Pocket Watches with PC

[TheVintageLibertine]

No watch with evening clothes rule is an entirely new one to me...

I wonder if the thinking behind it is a development of not looking at your watch, as this suggests you have rudely mismanaged your social calendar. It says you are looking for the earliest opportunity to give your hostess the slip, so you can rush off and disappoint another by being late. Not the done thing at all, old chap.

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That is precisely what old etiquette guides say; wearing any watch with formally wear implies there’s somewhere you’d rather be.

I don’t own a pocket watch, but I am a “watch guy,” and so disregard the old advise. For formal wear, I’ve alway felt silver-colored watches harmonize better with a black and white color palate—and especially Scottish formal wear because the silver metal buttons on most doublets and coatees.