gaining weight

 I've never liked heavy watches and while I accept that for some specific roles a watch is a tool and that tool needs to be sturdy, very few of us actually need (dunno how many want) massive 300meter dive watches.

So I thought I'd explore how porky modern watches have become with this assortment

The SNK805 tips the scales at 61.5g (watch alone is 47.2g)...

yet my beautiful 1965 Sportsman dress watch a mere 39g

Moving on to the more modern SPRE's with a metal band tips the scales at 123.5g (and this isn't my heaviest bracelet)

while its sibling in green with leather straps a much lighter (but still hefty) 71.3g

while my much more elderly 1979 model Sports 100 screw down crown semi-diver (which has been diving a bit) is 80.9g

which is pretty darn close (9g) to the SRPE with light weight leather pants on. Its 62.55g without the bracelet (meaning the bracelet is 18.38g).

So to my mind watches are getting chunkier and heavier and (as I showed earlier) thicker. 

The thicker a watch is, the further out from the wrist it sits and the more you notice its weight.

I have no idea why this trend is, all I can think is that everyone is starting to just follow the fashion started by Rolex; making things bigger.  Sadly the Rolex classics (such as the Goldfinger Bond or the Col Kurtz Rolexes) are actually not as thick and chunky ... I have no idea why everyone is after these bricks, are they compensating?

Currently the watches I have which feel most comfortable to wear are the Sportsman, the SNK805 and most comfortable and balanced of all is the Sports 100.