How do you deal with a pocket watch when kilted?

[Old Hippie]

A couple of years ago, while climbing in the Jamieson Range behind our farm, I took an unplanned tumble down a steep scree slope. While self-arresting I felt a ripping pain inside my left wrist as it was torn open on something sharp. Once the horizon stopped going around I had time to check out the wrist, which was not ripped as badly as I'd feared. I've since recovered full function in it, but I have an interesting scar there.

Because I couldn't wear my wristwatch for a while I started wearing various of the pocket watches I've accumulated over the years (I've inherited watches from each of my grandfathers, as well as been given them now and again). I haven't gone back to the wristwatch. I've been known to brace the manager of a clothing store for buying a batch of jeans with too-small watch pockets. Amazingly, it worked and the next shipment had larger pockets.

In a Freedom Kilt, I hook the chain over my belt and put the watch in the side pocket on the right side. The chain disappears in the fringe, and since I don't put anything else in that pocket the watch is easily accessible. Likewise in a UK Mocker. In a UK Workman I run the chain down the front of the kilt and drop the watch in an outside pocket.

On rare occasions, I wear a casual vest with the kilt, and do the watch-pocket thing with it when I do. Often, though, I'm not in a situation where a casual vest/waistcoat is appropriate or needed, and I don't have a formal one.

[Nighthawk]

http://www.miles-pocketwatches.com/Catalog_Belt.html
The seller is sold out, and the latch is a bit overmuch, but if you're going luddite, go big, eh?
I imagine there are leathercraftsmen around XMTS that could build to suit...

I love that!! I have 2 of those latches in the mail to me right now. I was trying to decide what to do with the second! That's brilliant!! I'm going to make one of those for my camera!

[NewEnglander]

does anyone have a pic of themselves (or anyone else) wearing a pocket watch in such a case?
i received a pocket watch for my last birthday and enjoy wearing it with a waistcoat, but would love the chance to wear it more often.

[Santa Wally]

I usually wear a leather side pouch on my belt, the chain hooked to a leather thong on the back of the pouch just behind the front flap. The thong gathers the pouch in the front to close it. The watch goes in the pouch with the gold chain draped along the side then under the flap.

[Red Stag]

My mother gave me one of these as a Christmas gift. I wear a Utilikilt to work and I just clip it on to my belt loop.

[graham_s]

If I'm not using a waistcoat, I just tuck my pocket watch between the aprons, behind my belt.
The fob has a clip, which I attach to the belt.
I've been doing it for years, and it's not fallen out yet.