Seiko & Citizen Watch Forum Message Archive

Some years back I worked for a senior executive who at one time had been the managing director of a large Japanese subsidiary of a world-wide high tech company. He once told me that they had a rigorous dress code: starched white shirts, dark ties and dark suits, and that one of the ways to tell who had senority was by the wristwatch and the shoes. The more senior people had more expensive and "exclusive" watches and the same went for shoes. While the watches tended to be domestic (Japanese) he said you'd be careful to be respectfully deferential to someone wearing a pair of English or Italian shoes (black of course). The higher-ups didn't use titles on their business cards so the first thing he'd look at was the watch to get a sense of who he was dealing with. Any truth to the story.