zOwie Omega Discussion Forum

: greater with that hand, a watchmaker once
: advised ma not to buy very complicated
: watches because of my left-handedness, the

The normal convention is to wear your watch on the non-dominant hand. So generally, left handed people wear their watch on the *right* wrist.

I take it you are wearing yours on the left. Still should not be a big problem. But might be advisable to take a mechanical watch off before doing things like hammering.

Don't see how slamming a door would hurt a watch -- unless you slammed the door *onto* your wrist.

But it doesn't matter if it has the coaxial or normal escapement. If shock resistance is your concern, your worry should be equal with any form of mechanical watch. Mechanical watches are inherently far less shock resistant than quartz -- by a whole order of magnitude.