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I'm just wondering, do people generally wear watches if they're also wearing french cuffs and cuff links? None of my watches feel or look right when I wear them with french cuffs.

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Breitling Navitimer 01 LE

I always wear French cuffs with a suit, and always wear a watch, but generally a more dressy one. I actually have my shirts cut slightly larger on the left wrist to accommodate a watch.

that's a great idea

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Breitling Navitimer 01 LE

I do, but I actually wear a slim Raymond Weil Parsifal with that setup. It seems to fit the best to me with that combo.

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Breitling Old Navitimer II
Breitling Emergency
Breitling Superocean Steelfish

Why not???

All of these slide easily under the cuff when needed.

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"It is just a matter of time!"

I buy off the rack and only occasionally wear French cuffs, but when I do it's simply a thinner watch. No way will my Headwind or Aquatimer work with my 7 3/4 inch wrist or the thickness of the watch, but a thinner dress watch works. I wear either my vintage Accutron or my cheapie Jacques LeMans square watch on mesh. Unless you have really small cuffs or a really big wrist, I would think your Datejust would work. My old Datejust would fit under any sleeve.

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Scott

AP Royal Oak 15400, silver
Zenith Chronomaster El Primero Classic Cars
Vintage gold Corum
Rolex DJ 36 TT, oyster dial, oyster/smooth
Baume & Mercier Riviera 200m, silver dial/aquamarine bezel
Breitling Superocean 57, rose/stainless

The datejust would certainly work better than the navitimer world, but it gets stuck againstthe edge of the cuff; I have to lift the cuff and drag it over the watch to get the watch under the cuff. I'm surprised that Wessa can get his Navi (admittedly, I know it's smaller than my world) under his cuff.

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Breitling Navitimer 01 LE

Lookin' sharp, Wes

The biggest concern I have when wearing cufflinks is not scratching the bracelet (or case) on the metal connecting part of the cufflink! (Yes, yes, OCD, I know! )

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Driver8

Site Moderator

I only wear french cuffs as well with my suits, but I opt for the Super Avenger as my daily wearer. I buy shirts off the rack however and haven't run into any issues surprisingly enough with the thickness of the SA.

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White Dial Super Avenger with Batons
Grey Dial Breitling Bentley 6.75

Past:
Black Dial Super Avenger with Numerals
Countless "high priced" cheapos

lol, it's sad Wessa when I'm scrolling through your pics going "but where is the hot tap cufflink?!?!... ahhh there it is, all is right again"
perhaps we should have a "guess who's wrist" comp?... definitely a few out there I'd recognise!

I wear regular cuffs more often than French. But when I wear French, I still wear my Breitlings just like any other day. Typically, though, when I dress up for style, I wear my Chronomat and not my Airwolf. Sometimes wear my family Omega heirloom, which is slimmer. But I don't mind the big chunky Chronomat, regardless of the cuff.

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Chris
Club Member #0070
2009 TT Chrono Evo w/Rose gold, blue face
2009 Airwolf w/black face, Co-Pilot module
2009 TT Lady Cockpit w/Mother-of-Pearl, Diamond face for the wife

Since I last wrote in this thread, I sold the Navi World to fund a Navi 01. I am very happy to report that the 01 slips right under the french cuff!

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Breitling Navitimer 01 LE