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27 May 2020, 10:47 AM | #1 |
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Watch Migration
Why do watches always tend to migrate to the outer part of the wrist? I know shortening the bracelet on the six o'clock side helps to mitigate, but why does it happen? Is it due to gravity? the ulnar bone?
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yes, Physics.
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F = Gm1m2/r2,
where F is the force due to gravity, between two masses (m1 and m2), which are a distance r apart; G is the gravitational constant. Hope that helps. |
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I actually didn't know that removing links from the 6 o'clock position helped mitigate this. I always make sure the clasp is perfectly centered instead of think about that. Thanks!
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This time of the year you see a lot of them migrating to the sandy beaches and tropical islands.
I think that this must be where they started their way in life.
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As a retired physicist (medical), I find all these answers particularly underwhelming
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Watch Migration
As an amateur linguist (still practicing), I must point out that watches don’t migrate.
On the other hand.... Birds, butterflies, animals of all sorts, tend to do that.
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Gravity. Look, notice when you are sitting at the computer or when driving, look at how your wrist is slanted. Folks that wear their watch on the left hand, constantly have their wrist slanted, the watch simply migrates down as gravity and the weight of the watch tilt it.
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Both gravity (as above), and construction of the above-wrist ulna and radius bones, going from pronation to supination, pushes the watch to the outside. Physics, as was said.
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Some good answers, thanks!
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Glidelock helps.
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Simple physics.
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