Welcome to this Watch live. Hi, I'm Lydia Winters. And I'm Foo Bowie. Today we're going to talk about Double Wristing. Double wristing. Wearing a watch on each wrist or wearing something on each wrist. Yes, it can also be wearing 2 watches on one wrist, but I disagree with that name because that there's the double wrist. Yeah, but so. Then there's not people use. It to mean the same thing, but I do like this. One name that I found was 2 timing, which works for both
because it's true. Unless you're Ryan Gosling and Barbie and then you're 3 timing. Yeah, I didn't know there was such like a variety in how. Yeah, I think that's just like a silly name, but I was like it's more accurate for 2 watches on the same hand. 2 timing Yeah, yeah I agree. And double wristing I feel needs 2 wrists involved. Yes, I think so, because it's double wristing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I've done this for many, many years. Yeah, you have.
Wait, wait, wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Why do you sound so about it? Well, because for many moons I was in about it, so I thought I could channel the listener. You're channeling you previous, Lydia. Previous Lydia who was like. That is. Stupid. Well, OK. No, I I feel very confident that you said it was stupid. I was a hater. I'm. I'll be the first to admit I was a hater.
Not publicly, but at home I was like, no. Yeah, I I believe our listeners by now have have a picture of you and they know that when you see something for the first time, I hate your natural instinct. It doesn't mean always you hate everything, but I believe your natural instinct is rejection first. Yeah, I am a rejection first. Even when you said let's do an episode on double wristing, I was like the same, the same noise as when. Is the first time you saw me
double wrist? Yes. Okay. So it's just for me. It is something that I have a long history with. You do. In 2016, I bought that because I had skipped the first Apple Watch because I'm like, well, I really like wearing mechanical watches. Why am I going to wear this? But by the time they released the Series 2, then I was like, OK, there are too many benefits to wearing this. I'm just going to get it and wear it on my other wrist and see how it goes.
And that was in 2016. Because you love data. I do love data. I have not stopped double wristing since, though. I haven't always double wristed an Apple Watch, but you wanted to go through the reasons to double wrist and I think that's a good place. Well, we can, yeah. But we can start with.
So your reason to double wrist from the beginning was being able to keep the love of the mechanical watch, but then also have all the data and information, which I think is one of the IT is a big reason for people whether it's a Fitbit. We had a whoop strap for a while that was like, what kind of my gateway into wearing 2 watches was wearing the whoop strap. I was like, it's not that bad and. It wasn't have two things on it.
It did not have a display. For those who don't know, Whoop is a company that makes fitness trackers, but they do not have displays. So it it goes on your wrist, you can just strap it on. You only have to charge it like once every five or six days. And it's just meant to be on your wrist all the time. Tracks, everything, Syncs with your phone. Yeah, it's. Not it's targeted towards extreme athlete. It is so obviously exactly. So we all sort of wishful.
Thinking from the start. Yeah, it's like, if you buy, it's like so many things. If you buy a pilot's watch, it's kind of like, aren't you kind of already a pilot then, Yeah? You know, no, I don't think anyone says that. No. I think it's more like you're you're flying high in your career. That kind of pilot it's. More of the feeling of. Just flying high in your wishful thinking. Yeah, probably. OK, another reason to double wrist two time zones. Or more, yeah.
I mean, I think that this is something that is just kind of a fun way to do it. I think it's more of a that, to me is just a pure excuse. It's like you couldn't think of a better reason. You're like, all right, fine. I I I need to track two time zones so I wear 2 watches. Whoa, this guy that's been double wristing for like. I don't need years. Is like your reason is not very good. No, I'm just saying it's thin.
It's a very thin excuse. Well, but I think that's kind of nice because maybe you haven't found a nice TMT that you like to wear. You could wear a little bit of variety. There's some something nice about being able to look down and just quickly see see the times. You kind of like train yourself, you train yourself. Into which risk do you need to look at for which time? And if one or both of them are multi time zone watches like they're either GMTS or?
Yeah, I'm definitely not doing that. Then you could just have all the zones. No, thank you all the zones. Then I will open up my phone and I will look at the time zone app. I. Agree with that, right? Like I I completely disagree with people who say, oh, it's way easier to just look at your phone than it is to wear a watch. I completely disagree. Because you just barely turn your wrist. You get to know the time. That's way easier than.
I mean, not everyone keeps their phone in their pocket, but I disagree that that's easier. However, wearing multiple time zones on multiple wrists, I do not necessarily think that's easier than just looking at your phone. Still valid but not. Easier. No, not easier. Not easier. Yeah, The next one I really like though, and that's just sentimental value. And so there is quite a few examples of different people who double wrist.
They have one watch. In the case of Prince William, he has an Omega C Master 300 from Princess Diana, and he wears that on one wrist and on the other one a Garmin tracker. Again, I think maybe he just wears it that way, more like you. And it just happens to be that one is sentimental and one is tracking, but it's still kind of a little more romantic or people who wear, you know, OK, perfect. Yeah, we can ask him why, but also Princess Diana. Lady Di wore 2 watches on the same wrist.
SO2 timing and which, yeah, I. Don't know if I. Don't think it's a great name, I feel. Like, but it's funny. We'll just say stacking, yeah. And that was back before she and Prince Charles were were married and she was wearing his watch and her watch and his was to like say you know good luck in the game that you're you're in. So I really like that or other people wearing like 2 mechanical watches, one you know, from different people and like doing a time zone where they were born.
And yeah, I think again, this is more the romantic side that if that appeals to you in order to be able to say like do whatever you want, then maybe that's. Yeah, Yeah, what? What these really are, you're just helping people have excuses to. Be like OK. And if someone asks them about it, they have a cool answer. Yeah, it's like, Oh well, this watch, you know, represents my first dog that I ever had who sadly passed away. Oh, our podcast doesn't have animals passing.
Well, my first dog was 35 years ago. I guess it would be more late breaking news if it was still. That would be late breaking. News. So OK I also I had a colleague that that used to work with with us but he wore 2 watches but he said it was for balance and he was he wore the same exact watch on both sides. They were both Seiko orange monsters and I remember for a while one was broken but he's like yeah but it doesn't really matter because he only wore 2 to feel balanced.
It felt weird for him to have something on one wrist and I. You can relate to that. That's you very much. Because sometimes I'm a little tired of wearing an Apple Watch. It just happens, right? Like, And then I'll I'll I'll still wear it for sleep because I want all that data, and I'll still wear it for workouts because I want the data. But then when I'm not doing those things, then I don't want to wear it. But then it feels weird to not have. Something, yeah.
So then I'll put on either like, sometimes I'll just pick something that's really fun, like a Casio databank little calculator watch or just due to mechanical watches. And it's like, OK. For those of us who collect watches, I think this might be the best reason to double wrist completely. Like for those of us who collect, we want to wear our watches. Yeah, we don't want them just sitting there. In a place as much time you can. Double risk to get double time
with your watches. You can enjoy two at the same time. Risks for a reason and so you can wear now. People are using their necks like we can just have watches everywhere. I'm kind of in for this. It just watches everywhere. We do have two risks for a reason. But for back to your the balance one, which I like and I think to highlight like how much this is you as a person is you have a tattoo on each arm in the same spot. They're different things, but they're the same shape.
Because you were like I do not like this asymmetry. No, I did not. I have one, so I'm like asymmetry. Yay. Yeah, so I got I I got a tattoo on one forearm and then maybe a year later. You were like, yeah, I need another one in the same spot. Yeah, I wanted to be the same shape, same size, same spot, but different subject. So it is. It is a different tattoo. OK, so we'll then we'll go into what finally broke me down into this, this place that I had been very against, like very against.
I was like, it's weird, I don't like it. I don't want anyone to say do you have 2 watches on? I. Don't I like, I really like fashion wise don't like I was like you. Were about as against it as you could be. Yes. But then in 2020, as I was getting like, then I was really getting more into watches and just wearing watches all the time again and just starting to buy more watches. But then when the pandemic hit, I also wanted all the data, yeah.
So I was like, no. Yeah, I. Mean. This makes sense now I. Remember that period of time? Like, really wanting to be able to focus on data that could give us a better picture of our immediate health? Yeah, like, how are things going? And there was data that came out that showed that respiratory rate tracking could actually give you early indicators of being sick and all of these. Things so. We yeah. Then we bought. Whoops.
Yeah, so I started with that whoop strap which has no display, no display, which was was nice and then I just have like a neutral black. But then over time I was like it doesn't it, it actually doesn't matter. And again, most of us who love watches, we're like everyone notices my watch. You just wish that. But no one does. Almost no one ever asks me it why I have 2 watches on like even with the Apple Watch it's very rare and so it's not like this this hot topic.
I still when it's like long sleeve time I'm very happy double wristing. When it's short sleeve I push or I leave one. I leave one sleeve down and one sleeve up to show the nice beautiful. One or you sometimes leave your Apple Watch off. If you go to something in the summer where you don't have long sleeves, you do sometimes leave your. Apple Watch. But that is just the personal preference of. I really liked it, like asymmetric feeling of A1 watch on.
I really like that. So to me, the balance is the negative. I don't like when it's balanced. It feels unbalanced for me. It's interesting. I wonder how much of your rejection of it is like physical, like the feeling of it versus just the fact that people want, you know, like, OK, the all these rules that exist that make people self-conscious about trying new things, whether it's style or whatever. Like I think they're ridiculous and outdated and we should not have these rules.
It's it's just a way to to get people angry, essentially. But as long as there are people, that means that people will want to fit into things. And in order to fit in, you kind of have to have outsiders. Because the best way to bond is to say, hey, those people are not us, right? So. I think there will always be people who look at someone else and say, hey, you're doing it wrong, because that is kind of just the way we are as people.
But in the community of watch enthusiasts, I would love to just see more acceptance entirely of like, hey, different people have different needs, requirements, wants, desires, like all of that stuff, and they can just do what they want as long as they're not making me do it. So I did for a long time hope that someone would try to call me out for wearing 2 watches. No one did. No one calls you I have worn. I have double wristed on videos. That happened. Millions and millions of views.
And it's very clear that I'm double wristing and I have looked through all the comments and there's nothing like people don't care. Yeah, no one cares. No, I mean, unless you're Rihanna or Taylor Swift wearing a watch around your necklace, around your neck as a necklace. People don't care. Like even that the majority of people would not have noticed naturally that it was a watch. Or they. And then they just think it's cool, like, oh, that's awesome, you have a watch on.
Like, I'm just happy if anyone notices a watch now I'm like, oh, thank you for noticing too. Yeah. I will say the very few times that people have noticed that I've worn 2 watches, it's almost always in a meeting where you're sitting like. For a long. Period of time across the table from someone and it's always been with just curiosity. And they're wearing too much.
Yeah, and then that person always has regretted asking, because then they got to hear Voo Booey go on and on about the benefits of wearing an Apple Watch and a mechanical watch. Yeah, the the take away is don't ask VU questions if you don't want a long, long, long long long long long long long long long. Sometimes people need to learn lessons. But we would love to know where you currently stand on Double Wristing.
I'm not going to say on 2 timing because I think yeah on on multiple wrists, multiple watches on wrists. Thanks everyone. Bye.