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Your watch says a lot about you. Are you sporty, practical, egotistical, or cheap? A glance at your wrist can tell the trained observer exactly where you're coming from.

First the good news. Women don't notice a man's watch. At least, not the sort of women you'd really care to know.

Chicks never notice whether I'm wearing my Rolex, or my Seiko.

Women just aren't into mechanical little things like watches (as distinct from mechanical large things like cars).

The kind of woman who is looking at the watch on your wrist to take your financial measure is what's impolitely referred to as a gold-digger.

If fine watches weren't such a pleasure to wear it would be worth wearing cheapo watches just to discourage this sort of gal.

You really wear a fine watch, not for how it looks, but for how it makes you feel. Think how many times you glance at your watch in the course of a day. If each glance fills you with pleasure, that's worth the watch's perhaps steep price.

If you wear an elegant watch, like a Patek Phillipe, for example, you're telling the world you're refined and have good taste. If you choose to wear a sports watch, say a Rolex submariner, you're saying that you're an active guy that's ready to plunge to the depths of the ocean on a moment's notice.

And if you wear a Dirk Pitt Doxa watch on your wrist, you're saying that you read way too many Clive Cussler novels,and are probably in dire need of a life of your own.

Learn more about this author, David Riel.
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