Any suggestions for <$250 dress watch to go with a blue suit (this color, or therabouts) for my wedding? I imagine a blue dial would be nice, but I’m worried about having the watch be one or two shades off from the suit–I guess that’s a fashion faux paus?

I tend to like simpler/Bauhaus-adjacent styles (e.g. Nomos/Sternglas), but could also be playful in terms of dial face. For example, I loved the Asterisk National Park watches (I spend a lot of time outdoors) and would’ve pulled the trigger on one if they’d had a park I was more connected to. Another brand I like the look of is NordGreen, but they seem pretty pricy for quartz.

I’d prefer automatic, but I imagine that’s a pipe dream given my price range for my wedding?

Anyways, looking forward to hearing from y’all and seeing watches that you like! I’m also down to learn about/see watches you love even if they don’t fit into my price range. What did you wear for your wedding?

  • scratchblue@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Lots of good suggestions here, I’ll just chime in to say that as far as color matching good, I’d actually avoid pairing as blue dial watch with a blue suit. It probably won’t be quite the same shade of blue, which means it’ll probably land in the uncanny valley of color matching. Better to just go with a different color entirely. For a dress watch, white, silver, champagne, and gold dials are the traditional choices. Depending on your skin tone, salmon dials have been popular recently too. Black dials are traditionally for sporty or tool watches, but it’s not like anyone is going to call you out on breaking tradition, and color-wise it will look fine. If you want something more colorful, I go for something warm like something based on a red, orange, it yellow. I’d stay away from most greens and purples for this suit. Brown could potentially work, depending on the watch, but it would give a definite 70s vibe to the outfit, given the color of the suit. It’s a nice looking suit, by the way!

    Edit: spelling