The wedding watch
By Dave Kowalski, Chicago ยท
Renee and I go to a LOT of weddings. Her side of the family is enormous and they all seem to get married in October. So I've thought harder than most guys about what goes on my wrist with a rented suit.
This is pretty much the answer. 40 mm wide, 9.4 mm thick. That's thin enough that a dress shirt cuff just slides over it with no fuss. White dial, simple date, leather strap. Nobody's going to look at it twice, which is exactly the point at somebody else's wedding.
And it's not a wimp underneath. H-10 automatic, 80 hours of reserve, sapphire, display back. You can leave it in the drawer from one Saturday wedding to the following Monday and it's still running. A lot of dress watches with fancier names can't do that.
Problems? 50 m water resistance, so it's not coming fishing. The design is a little plain. Some people will call it boring. I call it "doesn't compete with the bride." At $845 to $945, it's fair, maybe a hair high next to the Tissot Le Locle, but the Hamilton's thinner and I think a bit nicer looking.