If you’ve owned any amount of gents watches in your life time you may have realized that they are more like arm hair removers that also tell time. This is specific to gents watches not because of the design of gents watches but because ideally, women will not have hair long enough on their forearms for the wrist watches to pull out and if they do… it could be considered a good thing. Stereotypically the most common gents watches that are notorious for causing you to groan with pain as you pull your arm up to view the time are pin linked gents watches. Pin linked gents watches have several plates that are connected to one another by miniature pins that allow it to bend and flex to the contour of the arm. Unlike wrist band watches or gents watches that are only a leather bracelet and time face plate, these pin linked watches can get things caught (specifically arm hair) in them as they move around. They pinch at the skin and most often the hair and as they slide around this will occur more and more often.
How do you avoid the pains of getting your arm hair pulled? Well the quick and easy answer would be to not wear a watch, but most people enjoy the fashion it brings to your overall look and other like being able to have quick access to the time and date or timer that are on some gents watches. If you have especially long arm hair around your wrists then may want to consider gents watches that have a solid band made of cloth or leather so that it cannot pull your hair. Another option that is sometimes done is to take tape and stick it to the underside of the watch stretching the length of each side of it so that the links can only pinch the tape, and not the hair. The down side to this is that tape can make the watch look tacky and sometimes can even back fire if the tape sticks to your hair. Then you will have a watch and tape pulling at your arm causing you pain.
Another alternative is to look for specially made gents watches that are designed to minimize the amount of hair pulled out of your arm by the links. They do this by making the watch appear to be connected by links on the outside, but if you look under you will see a solid strip of metal that is connecting all of the links together. This works great for avoiding the pain but makes the watch not as flexible. Another disadvantage is that you will not be able to size the watch as it isn’t made up of links but rather made of one solid piece. You can also purchase specially made stick pads that will adhere to the underside of your gents watch. This is similar to using tape but they are designed to stay on the watch longer and are often covered in felt on the other side instead of just tape which allows a nice fit and feel to your arm.
The final solution to avoid gents watches that yank out your hair is to shave your wrist. This works out great and is hardly noticeable as long as you’re still wearing a watch. But if you ever go out and forget your watch you may find people staring at your one bare wrist. If you have lighter colored hair this may not be an issue as people wouldn’t notice, but for those who have dark black or brown hair shaving your wrists is probably not the best options.