Imagine it in your wrist.
Imagine you need adjust the time.
If you use this watch in your left arm, you can see the clockwise, without took it off your arm.
Now, if you use the watch in your right arm, when adjusting the time, your hand will cover the watch.
When you buy a watch, you don’t buy it to right or left hand. So why we have different experiences to the same function?
The hand movement in the tiny crown can be hard and not precise while you turn the piece with your hand in front of the dial.
Digital watches changed a little bit the experience of adjusting time. You don't have the crown, but now you have buttons on both sides of the watch. Sooner or later your hand will cover the watch.
I Tried to discover why 99% of watches have the crown at the right side, and nobody has and ultimate answer. Some says because this attend to tha majority of the population who is right handed.
But, why, we need to choose make a watch to right or left handed? Nobody ever wondered make a watch that the crown is up or down the dial?
Typical russian solution: Simple and effective! :)
And now we have the smart watches, that allow user to select the dial orientation:
I am thankfull to companies that have great UX teams, like Apple, that let consumers customize the Iwatch features, allowing them to use it on the right or left wrist.
I don’t know why they insist on a crown when you can set up the time on the display. Maybe it gives an elegant visual to iwatch and kept a watch characteristics...
But I still preferring the watches with the crown above the dial. People that use watches everyday know that the crown can hurt your wrist sometimes. Don't matter if you use it on the right or left hand. It will bite your skin. And that's reason enough to have the crown in a less usual place.
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