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                                                17th December 07, 09:39 AM
                                        
                                
                                
                                        
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			Pocket watches with a kilt?
		
			
				
					I don't like wristwatches, and I don't like the un-classy humiliation of having to look at my mobile phone for the time.  With trousers, a pocket watch is easy to wear, because there are pockets.  With a kilt, I have yet to figure out a good workaround.
 Does anybody else here use a pocket watch?  How do you do it?  Eventually, I'll probably get a Custom Thorfinn to solve this problem, but that is years down the road.  In the meantime, is there any way I can rig a watch to something, perhaps with an easy modification of something?
 
 Thanks,
 Matt!
 
 p.s. The watch I have is even made of silver, so it would match the kilt so well!
 
	
	
		
                        
                                
                                        
                                                17th December 07, 09:41 AM
                                        
                                
                                
                                        
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					Wear a vest?  Pocket watches originally went in the vest pocket, not the trouser pocket.  It's only we moderns, who no  longer routinely wear vests, who have started puttin' 'em in there.
				 
	
	
		
                        
                                
                                        
                                                17th December 07, 09:42 AM
                                        
                                
                                
                                        
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					You could use something similar to "sporran hangers/suspenders", I'd suspect.   
	
	
		
                        
                                
                                        
                                                17th December 07, 09:45 AM
                                        
                                
                                
                                        
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					You could just wear a vest and use the vest pockets...I personally like a vest because it makes one look trim.
 I just ordered one of these in Navy:
 
 http://www.celticcornerstore.com/cat...spx?cat_id=135
 
 ...they also seem to have a couple of extra inside pockets...an advantage when wearing the kilt.
 
 Our Chicago Transit Authority Bus Drivers used to wear pocket watches in a leather holder on their belts.  The watch was "upside down" in the holder so that they could just glance down at their laps and see the time.  Haven't seen one of these lately...I see something like it here:
 
 http://www.pocketwatchsite.com/accys.html
 
 Best
 
 AA
 
	
	
		
                        
                                
                                        
                                                17th December 07, 09:47 AM
                                        
                                
                                
                                        
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	Oh yeah, I forgot to say besides that!  If I'm really dressed up, of course that is what I'd do, especially to get that chain look.  I was talking about when I'm dressed casually.  I would just remove the chain and drop it into the sporran, but that seems not just a little risky to me, all dropping it in among pens and keys etc.
		
			
			
				
					  Originally Posted by Mr. MacDougall   Wear a vest?  Pocket watches originally went in the vest pocket, not the trouser pocket.  It's only we moderns, who no  longer routinely wear vests, who have started puttin' 'em in there. 
	
	
		
                        
                                
                                        
                                                17th December 07, 09:50 AM
                                        
                                
                                
                                        
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					once upon a time my brother made me a leather pouch that fits on my belt. The watch fits in there, the chain hooks to where ever I find convienant (sp). I wish I still had it.
				 
	
	
		
                        
                                
                                        
                                                17th December 07, 09:54 AM
                                        
                                
                                
                                        
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					I've seen cheap watches that have a clip you can attatch to a belt loop... you could get one of these and hang it from your sporran belt or hangers, or something... and at about $20, you could afford to drop one of these in your sporran and not worry about it.
				 
	
	
		
                        
                                
                                        
                                                17th December 07, 09:55 AM
                                        
                                
                                
                                        
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	I bet you could talk CavScout into making something similar for you, reasonably inexpensively.
		
			
			
				
					  Originally Posted by Dirk Skene   once upon a time my brother made me a leather pouch that fits on my belt. The watch fits in there, the chain hooks to where ever I find convenient. I wish I still had it. 
	
	
		
                        
                                
                                        
                                                17th December 07, 09:56 AM
                                        
                                
                                
                                        
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					I've just attached the fob/clip to the buckle and simply tucked it into the band of the kilt, between my shirt and the kilt. It always seem to hold it just fine and even if it does slip, it can't go far because it's attached to the buckle. Of course, I've got a bit of a gut so that helps as well...
 But I still prefer to wear a vest when I've got a pocket watch....
 
 Make sense?
 
 T.
 
 Edit to add: you can have one of the custom leather folks make you something like is shown here;
 
 http://irishkiltstore.com/sr_aewil_4...sh:id=fxZDyja8
 
 Just make the belt loop larger for a kilt belt or whatever you wear.
 
	
	
		
                        
                                
                                        
                                                17th December 07, 09:59 AM
                                        
                                
                                
                                        
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					I use a pocket watch because of the larger face and so on.  Mine is silver and has a chain with a clip on each end.  I put the watch in my sporran with the clip on the edge under the flap.  I also have a vest and wear the watch in any of the pockets.  I'm making a pouch that can go on the belt or top edge of the kilt.  This is leather and has a clip on the back; the chain would be attached to the belt or something so it hangs in an arch.
				 I tried to ask my inner curmudgeon before posting, but he sprayed me with the garden hose…Yes, I have squirrels in my brain…
 
	
 
	
	
 
	
	
	
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