Can you tighten the strap?

 

Yeah....with a strap fits snugly it shouldn't move much.

 

Throw it away and just use your phone.

 

Get a better fitting strap.

 

To elaborate, if simply getting used to a tighter fit is not an option, custom strap makers (see sticky on the Straps & Bracelets forum for a great list) can make the two pieces in a variety of lengths to largely solve the problem. Even in that case, however, the strap needs to fit snugly enough. If you can make the watch rotate around your wrist by twisting it, it's too loose.

 

Hmmm do you have a wrist pic how the watch sits on your wrist? Is your watch sized correctly? In general the bracelet should hang longer at the 12 o'clock end than the 6 o'clock end. You can always resize the bracelet to compensate which end the watch is favouring to fix this off balance...


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Hmmm do you have a wrist pic how the watch sits on your wrist? Is your watch sized correctly? In general the bracelet should hang longer at the 12 o'clock end than the 6 o'clock end.
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Really?!?!

Now I have to change all of mine.

 

A photo would be helpful. But I agree that tightening the strap or bracelet should help.

 

Agree that a photo might help, showing how it sits and the watch on the strap by itself. I have noticed that if the strap is stiff and one side is a little too short it will tend to pull the watch case over to one size as the clasp "centers itself" underneath the wrist. "Centers itself" is not quite the proper way to describe other than to say as the strap is adjusted to feel comfortable on the wrist, it causes the watch case to become uncentered.

 

Yes. Either live with it or tighten the strap/bracelet. I do one or the other depending on the watch. Also, lighter, thinner watches tend to stay put much better than heavier &/or taller watches.

 

Not really.. A watch doesn't have to sit in one spot on the wrist. They generally move around a bit unless on a pretty snug strap or bracelet. It'll still look good on you in general; people really don't care if your watch is a bit crooked on your wrist at any given time. A nice watch will be seen as a nice watch. Just straighten it up if you're taking a wrist shot.

 

I think if you have a defined flexor digitorum profundus (or whatever, I'm no anatomist) that might sort of push it aside.. But who knows, the shape of peoples wrists is probably quite varied throughout the populus. I have "problems" with this as well.

 

I have that with one watch. The problem is mostly that the strap ends don't put the clasp exactly in the middle, and the chunky deployant wants to sit a little off-center as a result. A tang buckle would probably solve the problem, but I'd rather keep the deployant.

 

I have this issue as well. I solved it by not listening to the horde of posters who shriek "it's too big!" every time they see a watch over 40mm.

Without a picture, it's hard to visualize exactly what you mean, but in my case larger watches sit better on my wrists (despite my wrist diameter being fairly slim). It has to do with the way the bones in my wrist protrude to make them flat.

 

I have a similar problem OP. The face/lugs don't overhang but the watch doesn't stay centered on my wrist. I find that if I make the strap tight enough to keep it from moving I find it uncomfortable so I live with adjusting it every so often. Also in my experience bracelets seem to be worse than straps and cheaper straps worse than higher quality.

 

I have a similar issue with my wrist bone such that my watches tend to sit away from my body ever so slightly. This makes me have to turn my wrist a bit more to look strait on at the watch dial.

Meh. Not really an issue but that got me thinking recently that a custom strap that had a shorter strap at the 12 o'clock (or vice versa, 6 o'clock) may rectify the issue by putting more pressure one way or the other.

 

All my watches end up staring at my little finger to some extent regardless of size and I simply accepted that with a wrist like mine it's just one of those things. Doesn't mean to say that it's not a PITA at times though.

 

This is how mine looks:









To get it centered, I wore it while sitting still at the table surfing for a few hours. This caused the strap to form where I like it and there have been no issues since.

 

This happens to me so much. I have slowly gotten used to it and it doesn't bother me as much. Wearing watches with a bracelet instead of strap seems to help.

 

I wear my watches loose so it never stays centered which is fine. The sad thing is that the Apple watch somehow almost always stay centered. Not sure if it's the watch or the Milanese bracelet but I think watch because I still wear it loose even if you can adjust Milanese to any size. I just can't be bothered so I size my watches to the most expanded size and if it's loose during the times that my wrist doesn't expand, who cares.

That's why I don't really care about diver extensions.

 

Get a softer strap. It's always the stiff straps that cause that sort of de-centering, in my experience.

 

I've found soft silicone rubber straps work best for me. Many have some kind of textured underside that helps with ventilatation while grabbing your wrist without having to overtighten the strap until it gets uncomfortable.

 

You should tighten your strap that should keep the watch in place

 

My wrist bone sort of protrudes on one side. Because of this, my watch never sits centered on my wrist. I'm constantly straightening my watch. But because of my wrist, it always moves.

Am I the only one with this problem?

No. I have 8" wrists, and when I wear anything smaller than 44mm, the case tends to favor one side or the other (especially 40mm). I could, of course, cinch the band tighter, but I don't favor the feeling of having it so tight.

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Alysander

 

depending on the watch / strap I tend to have this issue.. with a well fitting metal bracelet watch tends to stay centered .. my SRP637K and VSA alliance tend to stay

w/ my SKX on a nato... it depends on the day and the strap.. but tends to flop towards the outside of my wrist.. but whatever.. however it is usually because I have worn it one hole looser than I probably should.. but it is more comfortable a bit looser..so I live with it. in fact just tried it.. one hole tighter and skx is staying put.. but is bothering me..so looser it is ...

 

Like a previous poster said, I could make it tighter, but I'm not comfortable with that. I also have 8" wrists.

Here's a couple shot;




Here you can kinda see the odd wrist bone.

 

I can't tell exactly what material that watch band is made from nor its length but it looks as if it might be stiff. So I still suspect it is more because of the strap stiffness rather than your wrist shape. Meaning if put on a soft leather strap I suspect it would sit much better.

I have a Casio F91w which has a stiff resin band and it always moves into the same position as your watch. I thought it was just me until I was watching a youtube video unrelated to watches and noticed the person talking was wearing the same watch with similarly uncentered watch case. I am pretty sure it is because the half of the band with the buckle is a little too short and because of the stiff resin material it acts as a spring and shifts the watch over, no matter where it starts out.

 

A bracelet is easy to fix - you need to remove more links opposite to sliding (if watch slides toward 12h, remove links at 6h - add them at 12h if you have a thick wrist).

For straps, it gets trickier as it depends on the clasp. If one side deployant, is worth trying to switch the strap parts (between 12h and 6h). It could work also for normal buckles but not that much for butterfly deployants. Another option is to use a NATO strap - from my experience they fit much nicer on the wrist.