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Turn your apple non gold watch into a gold watch

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Im with Manahan on this one.....when I used to wear a watch it was on my dominant hand/wrist. Felt wrong on the other.
 
I'm thinking the dominant hand watch wearers never had a parent or an adult who taught them the proper hand to wear a watch.
 
ponyo said:
I'm thinking the dominant hand watch wearers never had a parent or an adult who taught them the proper hand to wear a watch.
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the president wears his watch on his dominant hand:

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brianmanahan said:
the president wears his watch on his dominant hand:

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Which has specifically been pointed out numerous times as going against traditional logic:
http://lexellwatches.com/blogs/lexe...ch-on-an-inside-look-at-how-celebrities-do-it

I can put my watch on and take it off effortlessly on my left hand because my right hand is dominant, but I fumble a bit when I try to reverse which hand I wear it on. The crown is on the right specifically because most people are right-handed and expected to wear it on their left wrist.
 
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Rakehellion said:
"Traditional logic." You crazy Republicans.
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It's "traditional" logic because there are exceptions, like golf watches with the crown on the other side or the Apple Watch which can have the entire user interface reversed so that the digital crown is still accessible to your other hand. The traditional logic is no less logical and still applies: The reason the pic that started this conversation is wrong is because the crown is not accessible to his other hand despite the option/need/logic.
 
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This has got to be one of the most pointless arguments I have seen on this forum. Wear the fucking thing where is feels the most comfortable?
 
DaTT said:
This has got to be one of the most pointless arguments I have seen on this forum. Wear the fucking thing where is feels the most comfortable?
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Been wearing it on the wrong hand and just rudely discovered that, eh? 😉
 
DaTT said:
This has got to be one of the most pointless arguments I have seen on this forum. Wear the fucking thing where is feels the most comfortable?
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Yes. The watch is designed to let you wear it on either hand. I think he put it on the wrong way (not the wrong hand, but the wrong way for the digital crown) because he didn't know there was an simple option to flip the user interface and reverse the crown's rotation functions.
 
SKORPI0 said:
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Should have been 22K Gold plated, not sprayed painted.

Gold watch - $12,000. Not Gold - $399. :awe:
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Yeah I was hoping to see some electroplating or something. It's not exactly surprising that if you want something to look gold, you just paint it gold
 
dighn said:
your stupid because your dumb.
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Sarcasm with the use of "your," I hope.
LTC8K6 said:
I think you could do a really good job using gold foil.
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gorcorps said:
Yeah I was hoping to see some electroplating or something. It's not exactly surprising that if you want something to look gold, you just paint it gold
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Electroplating would be the way to go. You can get enough gold fairly cheaply. A video demonstrating how to take the guts out of the watch to electroplate the parts you want gold would be great for the Apple watch fans who want a gold watch. (As well as a video demonstrating how easy it is to do electroplating.)
 
You're all wrong. Traditionally, watches are worn on your left hand, which happens to be most people's non-dominant hand. Then, your right hand (and most likely, but not necessarily dominant hand) can operate the crown.

Up until very recently, watches were not invertable. So if you put a watch on your right wrist and flipped it upside down to make the crown face your left hand, the watch would now be upside down. This is still the case with almost all analog watches. It seems that only digital watches, and still only a few, can be inverted.
 
slugg said:
You're all wrong. Traditionally, watches are worn on your left hand, which happens to be most people's non-dominant hand. Then, your right hand (and most likely, but not necessarily dominant hand) can operate the crown.

Up until very recently, watches were not invertable. So if you put a watch on your right wrist and flipped it upside down to make the crown face your left hand, the watch would now be upside down. This is still the case with almost all analog watches. It seems that only digital watches, and still only a few, can be inverted.
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That's exactly what I said earlier except that digital watches have no crowns and have been traditionally worn on the non-dominant hand ever since for the same reason crowned watches were intended to be worn on the left. There is no need for a crown-less watch to be invertible for switching hands.
 
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DrPizza said:
Sarcasm with the use of "your," I hope.



Electroplating would be the way to go. You can get enough gold fairly cheaply. A video demonstrating how to take the guts out of the watch to electroplate the parts you want gold would be great for the Apple watch fans who want a gold watch. (As well as a video demonstrating how easy it is to do electroplating.)
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iFixit has disappointing news for you. Replacing the battery is easy but removing the important parts is a destructive affair.
 
CZroe said:
That's exactly what I said earlier except that digital watches have no crowns and have been traditionally worn on the non-dominant hand ever since for the same reason crowned watches were intended to be worn on the left. There is no need for a crown-less watch to be invertible for switching hands.
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Ah. Didn't see your post. But yea, pretty much.
 
I hold my phone in my non-dominant hand and use it with my dominant hand. I'd want to do the same with a smart-watch, which means I have to wear it on my non-dominant hand.
 
brianmanahan said:
8 years? 😕 more like 24

and it's not wrong, why not put your best hand forward?
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sorry, i assumed you were about 16 years old.

it's wrong. you should wear it on your non-dominant or left wrist. that way, you can use your dominant hand and, simultaneously, tell the time accurately with your non-dominant hand.

imagine holding a beer, writing a note, doing bicep curls, ironing a shirt, etc. with your right hand and trying to see what time it is...

the wind is on the right side of the watch so, with your right hand, you can easily wind it up or set the date, etc.
 
CZroe said:
The rest of the world says it goes on the opposite hand to free up your dominant hand for work.
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No, it goes on your left hand regardless of dominant or not so that you can adjust it/wind it without taking it off...
 
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