Not as well as a true dress watch. Better than a novelty watch.

 

Well enough ...

 

If it’s a smaller vintage one, very well.

 

Exactly. Depends on the Seamaster.

If it's a smaller vintage one, very well.

 

Seamaster 300, with the Bond bracelet, one could not ask for a better sports watch to wear with a suit. God, I can not forgive myself for giving up this watch twelve wears ago.

 

The Seamaster detracts from the elegance of the suit IMHO. I would never wear any of my divers with a suit (PO2500, Seawolf, Cayman, Seacraft, SD43), not even the YM supposidely more elegant. Only a dress watch with a suit for me. I don't care about what fictional characters do in movies.

 

A dress watch would ideally look better but in my world this is plenty dressy enough to look good with a suit.

 

Not near as well as a black dial Aqua Terra in my opinion

 

About as well as a nice dive watch imho. A bit too casual for a suit but would work just fine with a tie and sport coat.

 

It's a matter of personal taste, really. Given that almost no one will notice your watch, and even fewer will have the thought - *GASP* I cannot believe he's wearing a sports watch on bracelet to a business occasion! - it's really a matter of what you think looks good.

Regards,
Alysandir

 

Just wear white athletic socks with your suit and nobody will notice your watch. Just kidding of course. I think it's up to you to judge the situation. If you aren't comfortable and care that it might not seem appropriate, just don't wear a watch. Us watch nerds don't often consider NOT wearing a watch because it's not how we're wired. If you don't have a watch in your collection that seems suitable for a given situation, you'll probably be more comfortable and worry less if you don't wear a watch.

 

You bring up a good point. Little wardrobe attention makes for a complete package. I do not think the seamaster would be as off as white nike socks but point well taken.

 

Vintage size, on a leather strap - better than a flashy metal bracelet. Like was said, OK for blazer and tie, not for a real suit.

Looking good:

Looking gauche:

 

I always found it to be a very dressy diver, as the height of the case is reasonable, and the bracelet was the best I ever owned by a mile.

Would have had no probs wearing it with a suit.

 

Completely personal opinion...
Omega SMP (2531.80 - Bond) was my only watch for almost a decade. Wore it to weddings, corporate functions, business leader events, everyday office (with a suit), as well as, casually to bar, to club, to the beach. It was fine in all those situations. At the time I was working on Wall Street and daily dress was suit and tie. Watch complimented dress code just fine.

Nowdays I have a bigger collection and vary what I wear, but I'd have 0 issue wearing SMP with a suit. Indeed, nowdays the watch most often seen on peoples wrists (usually c-levele execs I meet with on regular basis as part of my consulting work) is a Rolex Sub. All sorts of dive watches on bracelet (from Rolex to Omega to Breitling, etc) worn with suits routinely.

So just sharing what I see and what I personally feel comfortable with. Not going to preach how others should dress

 

Completely personal opinion...
Omega SMP (2531.80 - Bond) was my only watch for almost a decade. Wore it to weddings, corporate functions, business leader events, everyday office (with a suit), as well as, casually to bar, to club, to the beach. It was fine in all those situations. At the time I was working on Wall Street and daily dress was suit and tie. Watch complimented dress code just fine.

This right here.

The 2531.80 is different than the other Seamasters that followed. Much thinner than the newer ones and it has a great bracelet.

I might second guess myself about 2500 PO with a suit, but the 2531? Nah, not a worry in the world.

 

I honestly think the Seamaster makes perhaps the best dress watch out of any other sports watch out there... Yes, even more so than the Submariner

 

Fine, if it's a dive suit.

 

If you want to know about what works with a suit in terms of color, proportion, dimensions, etc., go to a style site like GQ. On a watch site, you are going to get permission, not advice.

 

1) I don't see why an adult needs to get advice on how to dress... from GQ or anywhere else. Especially since best advice is to look at people who you want to emulate (company leaders or people whose job one is after) or who you respect or whose style appeals to you (even if that is fictional character like Bond or non-fictional one like Prince William)

2) I glanced at GQ. No thanks. 1st page is full of nonsense outfits. Celebrity outfits are crazy for someone normal to wear. And their latest in style looks like nonsense.

So even if it's not "proper" to wear a diver with a suit, I think I'll go with what looks good and feels right to me, rather than listening to style advice on GQ.

 

In all honesty, no one will notice. It will probably be under the cuff most of the time anyways. Unless you get one of those 52mm Invicta divers.. then you're just asking to get ridiculed.

 

It's thin enough and really looks great.....Would wear it with a suit anytime!

 

Emulating people who also don't have any sense of what works together just means two people won't know how to dress. From what I can tell, most people in high powered positions are more interested in showing off how much money they have through status symbols rather than what looks good.

Looking good in a classical sense of elegant style is a body of knowledge that needs to be obtained just as anything worth knowing. I can look out at a bunch of people and choose to look like them and call that style or I can learn from generations that came before, who have already answered this question and settled on a set of guidelines. Some people feel right wearing a red clown nose and Converse sneakers with a suit. That's a style, certainly, but not one that I'd adopt. Opinions vary, as they say.

There are reasons why a dress watch works with a suit and a diver generally does not. A diver is generally big, shiny, with a colored bezel, often on a strap that clashes with a suit, big indices with lots of lume. It screams "look at me!", which is why people in high power positions wear it - to draw attention to themselves.

A dress watch is smaller and thinner, to fit under a cuff. It does not have a bezel to play with or complications or often even a second hand because the focus is on harmonizing with the apparel, not drawing attention to one's self. It is on a leather strap to match the color of the suit. Nothing should stand out or draw the eye.

Lots of people mistake expensive with dressy. Drug dealers bling up their watches with diamonds. But I guess if they are comfortable with that...

 

ARGH...

2 of you...


it's COMPLEMENT, not compliment.

I swear, ever since everything went to computerized spell checking, incorrect homonyms are the *norm*.

More on point, I think any diver with a suit is less than optimal. If you will, then use restraint. Something like a Pepsi bezel...? Nooooooo. I think the AT suggestion works...the spearhead is the only mild issue, but that's small enough to be OK. New Railmaster with the dark dial would be OK most of the time.

 

ARGH...

2 of you...

it's COMPLEMENT, not compliment.

I swear, ever since everything went to computerized spell checking, incorrect homonyms are the *norm*.

More on point, I think any diver with a suit is less than optimal. If you will, then use restraint. Something like a Pepsi bezel...? Nooooooo. I think the AT suggestion works...the spearhead is the only mild issue, but that's small enough to be OK. New Railmaster with the dark dial would be OK most of the time.

your write- that would of made me mad to but I could care less and also, I like deployment clasps

 

The Seamaster is a sports/dive watch, inc. the James Bond edition, and does Not go with a suit.

Dress watches go with a suit.

 

I think it looks great!

 

Not very well. The last time I wore a Seamaster with a suit it told me the suit looked too small.

 

Hmmm showing-off? I doubt it...
Most people I run into who wear divers are often CEOs and others at same level... they don't need to show-off. Reality is most have just 1 watch, and pick something versatile - that can be worn with a suit AND casually. And many got them as presents, which makes the whole "style" point meaningless (when someone special gives you a watch, or you get one for a special occasion - you wear it, end of story)

And some definitely don't need to flaunt anything.

 

Hmmm showing-off? I doubt it...
Most people I run into who wear divers are often CEOs and others at same level... they don't need to show-off. Reality is most have just 1 watch, and pick something versatile - that can be worn with a suit AND casually. And many got them as presents, which makes the whole "style" point meaningless (when someone special gives you a watch, or you get one for a special occasion - you wear it, end of story)

And some definitely don't need to flaunt anything.

LOL!! The people you've posted are ALL about power! People in power love showing that they've made it. It asserts their authority. And CEOs showing their status symbols to other CEOs are simply showing that they belong to the club. It isn't about dressing elegantly or stylishly - it is another form of marking territory. Better than peeing, I suppose...

 

Sometimes, this forum feels like the Oscars Red Carpet Pre-Show.