The struggles of a terribly small wrist
In early 2016, after getting a (rather insignificant-but-good-enough-to-live-off-of) promotion at my previous job, I decided to buy myself a nicer timepiece. Before that promotion I owned my dad’s two-tone midsize quartz Tag Heuer 2000, a bevvy of cheap basic Swatches, and a Sea-Gull M171S.
I decided to get myself a Tissot Visodate, a quite popular vintage-inspired piece reminiscent of the Don Draper era. Although the average size of dress pieces has been 40mm, and the Visodate was well in those case proportions, I did not realize it would look like this:
Obviously, this horrific lug overhang means that the watch is badly-proportioned on my 6.25″ wrist.
This trend of wearing dinner plates on wrists has surely shown signs of wearing down (if the pun can be pardoned), but as of the time of this posting, it is very difficult to find a decent daily watch that sits perfectly in my minuscule proportions.
I mean, there are options: the 36-38mm playing field is rife with vintage remakes and slightly more manly women’s watches. I could go for an older Rolex Explorer ref. 114270 or one of their newer 36mm Oyster Perpetual models, but I feel like I’m not mature enough to purchase an exit watch -- that one watch to rule all watches.
And so the search drew on until I saw an Omega Seamaster Professional Diver 300m in midsize.
The first time I saw this watch was in November 2017, and it quickly became that one-watch-to-rule-all-watches-until-the-Rolex. Talk about being versatile. Talk about proportion. Talk about reliability.
It was such a shame when I placed an order for this watch, that I had ordered one of the last midsize pieces in Canada since Omega had discontinued this model. The large watch trend is buckling -- and yet Omega had released a Diver 300M that’s larger than the last iteration!
At any rate, this will be the keeper watch, and the testament to why midsize watches need to exist.
