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In the world of vacuum sealed watches, there are some topics that always generate heat, and the “stack†is up there. Is it okay to wear your watch with a big stack of bracelets? Few questions cause blood pressure to rise faster.
The first time I encountered this debate was in March, when I posted a photo of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, on the night of her controversial Oprah interview with Dimepiece, the Instagram account I run on women and watches. In the photo, Meghan is wearing what is been identified as Cartier Tank Française in yellow gold from Princess Diana, flanked by rich mama style pearl bracelets on Abbot Kinney. The post received comments such as “What a showy girl she is” and “She’s a pain in the ass” – all easily dismissed as personal opinions. But what stuck with me was a now deleted comment stating, “You don’t stack heirloom jewelry.”
The Meghan case is busy. Some people blame him for… what, exactly? Withdrawing from the royal family in the name of mental health? Her enemies claim she’s too modern, too casual, so seeing her style a legacy with bracelets? Coarse. It didn’t seem to be about the watch, exactly, but then again, it is yellow gold (a particularly soft metal vulnerable to scratches), and it’s been in the family for decades. The incident got me thinking, and every time I posted other women pairing watches with bracelets, I realized I wasn’t alone. Stacking quickly became one of the topics my audience wondered about the most. Over and over I was asked: is stacking bad for the watch? And is that a style faux pas?
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Let’s answer the first question first, because it is relatively simple: yes, if you layer your watch with straps it can get dirty. But Isabella Proia, Phillips’ watch specialist, says the real risk here is over-polishing. If your watch is scratched, you may want to have it polished. Corn! Every time a watch is polished, a layer of metal is removed. This leads to softening of the edges and dulling of the punches which can alter the design of the watch and decrease its value.
Yet there is a bigger philosophical question that we are really asking here. What does it mean to live with a luxury item? In the realm of high-end products, there are two types of collectors: guardians and swaggers. There are those for whom a “fresh out of the box” look is the ultimate goal, no matter what the item. They wince from a scratch on a leather moccasin and become regulars at the local shoemaker. And then there are those like, say, Mary-Kate Olsen, whose beaten to death Hermès Kelly became the ultimate status symbol in the 2000s.
It’s so stained! So haggard! How do we even reason with this? Maybe the way is through @ angelmoney007’s Tweeter, “Sorry, but being a little messy is classy ….. you have your ass buttoned up, try hard asf don’t you want your luxury to feel a little bit lived in ie you get there really lounging … like a real plutocrat … I’m trying to fuck a Himalayan Birkin python. The luxury here isn’t about pristine items locked in safes or displayed in boxes This is a product so integrated into your world that you don’t care if it gets scratched.
“An inhabited luxury item implies a sort of irresistible nonchalance around such things”, GQ journalist and authority of opulence Rachel Seville Tashjian said. “On the one hand, it suggests their ubiquity in your life – oh, all my pens are Montblancs, and my bags are Birkins, and my shoes are Belgian moccasins. And on the other hand, there is a feeling of adoration so enthusiastic that the condition of the room is of little interest to the owner. Being a little relaxed with your luxury items, she says, “reinforces a very traditional idea of ​​luxury, in the sense that it harnesses the craftsmanship of these pieces, which remain functional despite the” bad behavior “of the user. . ”
It reminded me of the first time in recent memory that I tried on a luxury watch. This was my friend’s steel Cartier Tank Française, and because I was considering buying the same model, she urged me to get a feel for it. I even had trouble managing the clasp; I was so scared I was going to break it in half. “Can you open this? I asked weakly, to which she replied, “No, you open it!” You’re not going to break it. The watch is made of steel; it is handcrafted in Switzerland. I realized I was too precious with it, because I had never held something so beautifully made, so handcrafted. And now that I have my own Frenchwoman? I let others try it. And when they get that same feeling of hesitation? I’m like, “No, girl, take a walk,” and so on, and so on.
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Still not sure? Let’s do ask Chris Black. “Expensive things are usually well done,†he says. “The idea is to use them. Being too precious is old fashioned. True luxury is the beaten Birkin, not the perfect one.
But what about watches? They look good all shiny and new. The glow of the steel, the clarity of the crystal case, all of the parts work together in harmony to make a gorgeous whole, and too many scratches can derail that. But a girl must live. Whether or not I weigh down my left arm with a big pile of wrist candy, I’m still going to accidentally knock my watch on a taxi door. The point here is that life is messy, and your luxury items are not exempt from it, unless your hand lives under a glass dome in the style of the retired hand model in Zoolander.
Plus, some people just like to stack! It’s part of their look. Take the example of Bella Hadid: she wears a mini Cartier Panthère in yellow gold, aka the It girl watch, but sometimes you can barely see her under her stack of gold bracelets. Gold on gold… a resounding soft metal symphony… are you uncomfortable right now? It does not matter, you are not a stacker, each his own.
Lori Hirshleifer, co-owner of the Hirshleifers family-owned department store in Manhasset, New York, says her husband and son both squeak from their stacking habit. “But I love the way it looks,†she says. “My style is very maximalist and I’m more of a more type. It’s no different when it comes to stacking my straps with my watches. It’s so much a part of my identity to wear my pieces this way. For the ultra-chic, like Lori, the sense of style is one with the sense of self, so why compromise the self in favor of a default object designed to last?
Stacking, by the way, seems to be a matter of gender. You don’t see a ton of men doing it. Ladies have bracelets and rings galore, but typically a watch will be a man’s singular accessory. Men are highly opinionated on the subject though! I posted a poll on my Instagram story with the following prompt: “Stacking Watches With Bracelets: Hell Yes, or Hell No?” The results were roughly 50/50, but the majority of nonconformities were from men, with scratches cited as the main deterrent.
Some have also said that too many knocks can even ruin a watch movement, which I check with Proia, the Phillips specialist. “I’m not sure the movement issue is an argument unless there is a strong magnet in the strap,” she explains, further suggesting that excessive clicking could ruin the occasional watch. with minimal shock absorption, “but, I mean, most people aren’t wearing the Liberty Bell on their wrists.
Aside from the physical damage, some guys have had cosmetic issues with the concept. “Excessive stacking is prohibited! It makes your wrists awkward, â€one wrote. Another: “Unless it is associated with an intention, it interrupts the design and the presence of the watch. It might make my wrist awkward. This could affect the presence of the watch. But what if I like an awkward look to go with my goofy Prada loafers? What if I’m so indifferent to “presence” that I let my watch hide under the bracelets like Bella? Kind of a flex, TBH.
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“The obsession with the condition, with keeping something in ‘virgin form’, seems to me to be a very masculine thing,†Tashjian adds. “The goods are meant to be owned, to show the character and instincts of the person who acquired the thing in the first place. I think true luxury and confidence, and above all, style requires privacy with your clothes and jewelry.
Being intimate with our affairs, isn’t that what it is? Why buy into the lifestyle if we can’t live it? You don’t have to be super-rich to do this. You just have to trust the virtue to do things your way.
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