I noticed that dress watch have not been getting much love throughout malaysia community!

Been looking for a luxury one for quite long and the options are quite limited.

Let us discuss and post our favourite dress watch / wrists shot over here!

Any recommendation of model for me ? Be it an entry/intermediate/ expert level luxury brand dress watch- IWC, omega , Breitling , tag huer , Longines etc..

My favourite so far : IWC Portugieser.

This post has been edited by Exodius: Apr 24 2018, 10:36 PM


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hey bro based on ur budget of "entry level ", you should have plenty choices
what if Nomos & Frederique Constant?

Entry level Luxury - IWC is included inside

Changed the wording no longer just entry level .. thanks

Will do further research on that! Not really familiar with that brand though . Any model suggestion?

Depends, for Nomos most of their lineup nicely fits into the dress watch category, for FC I'm a big fan of them moonphase slimline.

Chronograph for dress watch? Tag Heuer and Brietling?

What a dress watch means -


https://www.gentlemansgazette.com/dress-watch-guide/

This post has been edited by DannyOP: Apr 27 2018, 09:46 AM

Entry level - #1 recommendation would be Orient Bambino. Now there's the Orient Classic Small Seconds, new release... hnngghh

perhaps u prefer a bigger watch even a dress watch, what if FC moonphase slimline as bro Fuzzy mentioned?

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This post has been edited by clj: Apr 27 2018, 01:00 PM

If you're really on a budget, try out the Seiko Presage line. They have some pretty great dress/formal watches for not a lot of money. Most of them measure around 40 mm so they definitely wont be too overwhelming in terms of size.

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Chronograph works just fine

Nothing wrong with a Chronograph, but traditionally speaking it's not a dress watch even with a leather strap. You can also do the same with a diver or any other watch.

For practicality wear anything you like with your clothes, even can be a Casio gshock, end of the day it's for your own pleasure.

Traditionally speaking, you would only be wearing 32mm watches as dress pieces.

Yes nothing wrong with it, especially dress watch, 7in wrists and below good to wear 32-38in. Above 7in a 40mm will look like a 38, and 8in above 42in still can pass.

Example of my recent 'small' size dress watch on a small 7in wrist. For sports watch, field watch and divers I wear bigger watches, 44 is the biggest I can pull off. Anything bigger will look like I'm carrying a wall clock on my wrists.


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just realised its so expensive add up another 1-2 grand could get me rolex / IWC already its not that well known in Malaysia/asia right?

I don't think there's a set definition for it . IWC portugieser and other watches got mentioned a lot on other famous youtube watch channel as elegant dress watch (semi dress watch). as long as its classy enough with a minimalist design to fit into suits would do for the public.

On a side note, gentleman gazette is not really a reliable source, often a bit redundant and out of points (remember one of his guide is to wear long socks as its more mature and stylish/classy which is deemed as the epitome of old man socks nowadays in new trends, theres a reason why he's been in the game for so long yet had only accumulated a measly 200k subscriber compared to other similar channels. (just my opinion on that channel nothing intended) haha .

Nonetheless the link does provide a good read! thank you for your feedback though appreciate it. just for some reasons I don't really like that guy

This post has been edited by Exodius: May 1 2018, 10:06 AM

nice watch bro ! just acquired a omega seamaster and kinda regret now as its much more of a tool watch compare to speedmaster/railmaster/deville series .

damn it really is nice and the price range is affordable as well ! remind my youth of 1st watch days getting scam by citywatch to buy a solvil titus quartz watch costing 1k RM when I can get orient bambino at similar prices

damn it really is nice and the price range is affordable as well ! remind my youth of 1st watch days getting scam by citywatch to buy a solvil titus quartz watch costing 1k RM when I can get orient bambino at similar prices

whats the size of your dress watch if I may ask? 7inch is kinda average though even for Caucasian size from what I gather through intenrnational watch forums so I guess you're basically gifted in wearing various sizes of watch. on high end brand the smallest watch size I ever seen or tried on would be 38mm . couldn't find any smaller

Well not surprising, there are not many true gentlemen left are they?

There are also many more DW sold compared to Omega and Rolex, more doesn't mean better.

Guidelines are there just for guidelines, you may choose to follow or disregard them. Maybe you have a nicer way that suits yourself, doesn't mean it's wrong or right. Just don't end up like the Emeperor's clothes.

From the Tudor pic that I posted what is the size that you guess? Does it look ok in your eyes?

I'm quite lucky that some of the popular YouTube channels like Urgen Gentry and Just One More Watch have small and same size wrists as mine, so I get a good idea how the watches look like everytime they wear one!

If you don't mind getting older models from most popular brands ie. Anything from Seiko, Grand Seiko, Omega, Rolex, Tudor, they used to come in sizes of 32-36 as norm for their dress watches. I'm surprised even Tag Heuer diving watch used to be only 36mm. Just make sure you get it authenticated if it's one of the more expensive brands.

Another illustration, a 38mm on my wrist, the Ball Engineer II.

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Yea true , I just wondered why I don’t like him so much maybe because he is not your usual typical good looking / fit / slim male to pull of as our fantasy expectation of a classy gentleman

In the end it’s still what look good on you that matters. These guideline are indeed helpful after all.

The previous one is it 36-39 my ? In between ? It look really nice compare to this watch that you just posted though. A bit too bulky haha

Thanks for the channel suggestion ! Haven’t heard of just one more watch prior to this

Sorry typo it is Urban Gentry.. and I like Just One More Watch because the guy reviews a lot of affordable watches that you seldom will know, he's also has a lot of Irish humour.

You may be surprised, the previous Tudor watch is only 32mm without crown and 34mm with crown. So if you have wrist size 7in or below, you can try out these sizes.

This post has been edited by DannyOP: May 2 2018, 01:49 AM

Yep watch a lot of historic video as well in the past all watches are small just that the trend CAuse watchmaker to increase its diameter!

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/rolex-datejust-review

Not much chance for me to wear a dress watch but this is the one and only in my collection.

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